Combustion Engineering — Refractory Products Division in Monongahela PA

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were allegedly exposed to asbestos while working at the Combustion Engineering Refractory Products Division plant in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. For the full corporate summary, see the Combustion Engineering manufacturer page.

Plant Description and Operating Era

The Monongahela PA plant allegedly operated as part of Combustion Engineering’s Refractory Products Division, tracing heritage to Pryor Giggey and M.H. Detrick castable-refractory manufacturing operations. The plant produced castable and plastic refractories, high-alumina and insulating refractory mixes, and pre-cast refractory shapes used in boiler linings, cement kilns, steel-mill soaking pits, coke oven crown linings, and industrial furnace maintenance across the Monongahela Valley steel and utility corridor. Production continued under CE ownership through the late twentieth century before division divestitures.

Premises ACM Narrative

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that pre-1980 Monongahela refractory premises involved asbestos through:

  • Asbestos-refractory brick, castable, and monolithic in boiler firebox, superheater header, and reheat furnace linings — including asbestos-fiber-reinforced insulating refractory formulations produced on-site
  • Asbestos-fabric expansion joints and asbestos-block hot-side lagging on plant kilns, dryers, and process piping
  • Asbestos pipe covering on process steam mains and utility lines
  • Asbestos sheet gaskets at pressure vessel, boiler drum, and steam header flanges
  • Asbestos-fabric radiography shielding cloth for pressure vessel NDT
  • Asbestos-block heat-treat furnace lagging on refractory drying and curing ovens
  • Asbestos sprayed fireproofing on structural steel (pre-1973 EPA ban)
  • Asbestos-fiber additions and asbestos handling in castable and monolithic refractory mixing and packaging operations

Workers Exposed

HFIAW Insulators, UA Pipefitters, IBB Boilermakers (ASME pressure-vessel hot-work), BAC Bricklayers (refractory), IBEW Electricians, Ironworkers, Millwrights, and USW steelworkers allegedly worked around asbestos-containing materials at the Monongahela refractory plant.

If You Worked at Combustion Engineering Monongahela

If you or a family member worked at the Combustion Engineering Refractory Products Division plant in Monongahela, Pennsylvania before 1980 and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim.

The Combustion Engineering 524(g) Trust (2005) may provide a legal remedy for asbestos-related injury from CE products and premises.

Free, confidential case evaluation: Speak with O’Brien Law Firm — (314) 936-2956