Product Description
According to publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation records, Plibrico Company allegedly supplied asbestos-containing monolithic gunning cement, plastic refractory, and refractory patching compounds used for coke oven battery repair, oven-door jamb rebuild, end-flue patching, and related high-temperature repair work at integrated steel mill coke plants. Plaintiffs allegedly identified Plibrico product shipments as a source of occupational asbestos exposure on coke oven battery-turn crews.
Litigation records allegedly describe asbestos fiber used as reinforcement and thermal-shock resistance in monolithic refractory formulations, released as respirable dust when workers opened bags, hand-mixed and rammed plastic refractory into oven jambs, gunned dry mix through pneumatic nozzles onto hot silica brick, and chipped spent patches during battery repair.
Workers Exposed
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed litigation that the following workers encountered Plibrico asbestos-refractory products:
- Steel mill bricklayers, refractory masons, and coke oven repair crews
- Coke oven workers, oven doormen, luremen, and battery workers
- Millwrights and mechanical maintenance workers on coke plant shutdowns
- Refractory gunning crews and battery-turn helpers