Plaintiffs allegedly were exposed to asbestos at Kerr-McGee / Tronox's Hamilton Mississippi titanium dioxide plant — a chloride-process TiO2 pigment facility operating since 1979. OBLF consultation.
Kerr-McGee / Tronox in Mississippi — Hamilton TiO2 Plant
Kerr-McGee Corporation (Oklahoma City OK; founded 1929 as Anderson-Kerr Drilling) built its Hamilton Mississippi titanium dioxide pigment plant in Monroe County MS in 1979, running the chloride-route TiO2 process to produce paint, plastics, and paper-grade titanium dioxide pigment. The plant allegedly employed several hundred workers at peak and integrated with rutile and ilmenite ore handling, chlorine generation, and pigment finishing operations. Kerr-McGee spun off its chemical operations — including Hamilton — into Tronox Incorporated in 2005-2006; Tronox continues to operate the Hamilton plant today. Although the plant came online at the tail end of the peak asbestos era, plaintiffs alleged that pre-1980 construction and early-operations equipment and infrastructure allegedly contained asbestos materials disturbed during subsequent maintenance, turnaround, and expansion work into the 1980s.
Premises ACM Narrative
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that the Kerr-McGee / Tronox Hamilton MS premises allegedly involved:
Asbestos pipe covering on chlorine, TiCl4, and process piping installed during original 1978-1980 plant construction
Asbestos-block and asbestos-blanket insulation on chloride-process reactors, oxidation columns, and heat exchangers
Asbestos-sheet gaskets and rope packing at high-temperature process flanges, valve stems, and pump seals — critical in the highly corrosive chloride-route service
Asbestos refractory on plant powerhouse boilers, chlorinator vessels, and high-temperature process heaters
Asbestos-cement transite panels on plant utility structures
Asbestos-containing brake friction on plant vehicles and material-handling equipment
Asbestos-fabric welding blankets and protective gear used during turnaround work
Workers Exposed
Plaintiffs allegedly included:
USW / OCAW chemical operators and TiO2 process workers at Kerr-McGee / Tronox Hamilton
HFIAW insulators dispatched to Hamilton construction, expansion, and turnaround crews
UA pipefitters on chlorine, TiCl4, and process-piping systems
IBB boilermakers on plant powerhouse and reactor work
IBEW electricians on plant motor-control centers and switchgear
Millwrights on process pumps, compressors, and rotating-equipment rebuilds
Outside contractor trades on Kerr-McGee / Tronox Hamilton EPC and turnaround projects
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Kerr-McGee / Tronox — Hamilton MS Titanium Dioxide Plant Asbestos Exposure & Claims — Frequently Asked Questions
Is Kerr-McGee / Tronox — Hamilton MS Titanium Dioxide Plant Asbestos Exposure & Claims documented in asbestos litigation records?
Yes. Kerr-McGee / Tronox — Hamilton MS Titanium Dioxide Plant Asbestos Exposure & Claims is documented in public asbestos litigation records, EPA NESHAP filings, OSHA inspection logs, and/or state regulatory databases. Workers at industrial facilities of this era routinely encountered asbestos-containing materials in pipe insulation, gaskets, packing, boiler block, refractory products, floor and ceiling tiles, and electrical components.
Which workers had the highest asbestos exposure at Kerr-McGee / Tronox — Hamilton MS Titanium Dioxide Plant Asbestos Exposure & Claims?
Trades with documented asbestos exposure at industrial facilities include pipefitters, insulators (laggers), boilermakers, millwrights, electricians, welders, sheet-metal workers, plumbers, carpenters, machinists, painters, and general laborers. Maintenance crews, refractory bricklayers, and shutdown contractors often had the most concentrated exposure during overhaul and tear-out work.
What asbestos products did workers handle at Kerr-McGee / Tronox — Hamilton MS Titanium Dioxide Plant Asbestos Exposure & Claims?
Asbestos-containing products commonly documented at industrial facilities of this era include thermal pipe lagging and block insulation (steam lines, valves, boilers), asbestos cement, refractory brick and burner-front gun-block, gaskets and braided packing (valves, pumps, flanges), boiler-tube insulation and lagging, vinyl asbestos floor tile, acoustic ceiling tile, and asbestos-containing transite board. Specific product manufacturers are catalogued at AsbestosIndex.
Is there a deadline to file an asbestos claim in Mississippi?
Mississippi law gives 5 years from the date of medical diagnosis to file a personal-injury asbestos lawsuit. Wrongful-death claims must be filed within 3 years from the date of death. The two deadlines run on separate tracks. The personal-injury clock starts at diagnosis, not at exposure — mesothelioma latency is typically 20 to 50 years.
Who else besides Kerr-McGee / Tronox — Hamilton MS Titanium Dioxide Plant Asbestos Exposure & Claims workers may have been exposed?
Yes. Spouses who laundered work clothing carrying asbestos fibers and children of workers who returned home covered in dust are recognized in Mississippi asbestos litigation as eligible for secondary (household) exposure claims when they have been diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease. Wrongful-death claims may be filed by surviving family members.
Can workers file both a civil suit and trust-fund claims?
Yes — more than 60 asbestos bankruptcy trusts hold combined funds set aside specifically for victims of asbestos-related disease. Trust-fund claims and civil lawsuits run on separate tracks; both can be pursued in parallel. Each trust has its own filing requirements, exposure criteria, and processing timeline.
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