M.H. Detrick Company

The M.H. Detrick Company makes industrial refractory products designed to withstand extremely high temperatures. For many years, it used asbestos in these products. This resulted in serious illnesses in some workers and lawsuits against M.H. Detrick.

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M.H. Detrick History

Founded in 1925, the M.H. Detrick Company started in Illinois as a heat enclosure manufacturer. The company began as a relatively small business. It quickly became an industry leader in heat enclosures and began adding various heat enclosure products to its lines, such as refractory linings and steel.

The company’s creation and distribution of refractory tiles are what pushed M.H. Detrick’s success even further.

Refractory tiles (also known as fire bricks) withstand very high temperatures and are used in furnaces, fireplaces, heat enclosures, and kilns. Asbestos helped make these products resistant to heat and fire.

M.H. Detrick used asbestos in its products, leading to thousands of asbestos-related claims. Court documents indicate that M.H. Detrick relied on asbestos from the 1930s until the mid-1960s.

M.H. Detrick Lawsuits and Bankruptcy

In most asbestos-related lawsuits against M.H. Derrick, the company was named as defendants alongside other companies that manufactured asbestos.

However, M.H. Detrick was included in so many asbestos-related claims that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1998.

Part of the company’s bankruptcy agreement included creating an asbestos trust fund to compensate for any pending and future asbestos-related claims.

On August 21, 2002, after M.H. Detrick emerged from bankruptcy, it established the M. H. Detrick Company Asbestos Trust.

Under Sections 101(5) and 524(g)(5) of the Bankruptcy Code, the asbestos trust assumed all asbestos-related claims against M.H. Detrick. A total of $3 million was placed in the trust in 2002.

In 2011, the asbestos trust fund closed.

Occupations Affected by M.H. Detrick

Since M.H. provided materials for many industries, numerous workers from various occupations were affected by the company’s asbestos-containing products.

The most common types of occupations affected by M.H. Detrick asbestos products are:

• Steel workers
• Construction workers
• Boiler manufacturers
• Fiberglass workers
• Aluminum and lead industry workers

M.H. Detrick Asbestos-Containing Products

For over 20 years, as previously mentioned, M.H. Detrick was responsible for manufacturing numerous products that contained asbestos, including the following:

• Mineral wool block
• Insulating cement
• Finishing cement
• Fireproofing cement
• Asbestos rope
• Detroc asbestos board
• Casing cement
• Plastic and block insulation
• Hitherm (insulation brand)
• Asbestolux (wall and ceiling board brand)
• Super 711 (sealant brand)
• Permiseal (waterproofing brand)
• Boiler coatings
• Pipe covering

M.H. Detrick Today

M.H. Detrick is still in operation today and based out of Mokena, Illinois. The company focuses on refractory heat enclosures and still provides insulation, pre-fired brick, and heat-resistant castings.

M.H. Detrick no longer uses asbestos in any of its products.

Contact a mesothelioma lawyer if you worked with M.H. Detrick products with asbestos. They can help you decide how to seek compensation if you get sick.

Additional Information for Asbestos Victims

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