W.R. Grace
W.R. Grace is perhaps most famous for being the villain in the 1996 non-fiction novel A Civil Action (later made into a movie starring John Travolta), which detailed the company’s negligence in poisoning the drinking water in Woburn, Massachusetts.
But Grace’s malfeasance in Woburn could not match the devastation it wrought on tiny Libby, Montana. Grace bought the Zonolite mine near Libby in 1963, which produced a very profitable but hazardous vermiculite mineral that was used widely for insulation, gardening, and fireproofing.
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Grace knew that the vermiculite was contaminated with tremolite asbestos, a particularly dangerous form of the mineral that causes asbestosis and mesothelioma, but never warned their workers or the public. Grace vermiculite has killed and injured thousands, including children who played on piles of contaminated waste rock that lay outside of its processing plants and played on the town baseball field that was covered in mine waste rock. Until 1990 when the mine was finally closed down, 80 percent of the world’s vermiculite came from Grace.
Grace has never admitted to wrongdoing in Libby, and continues to be a profitable company located in Cambridge Massachusetts to this day, despite having filed for bankruptcy protection in the 1990s. Other asbestos-containing products that grace made include the MonoKote spray-on fireproofing which coated the World Trade. Their new company slogan is “Enriching lives everywhere.”
If you or a loved one has developed mesothelioma cancer as a result of working for W.R. Grace, or with any of its products, you do have rights under asbestos law and may be eligible for a mesothelioma settlement. Mesothelioma attorneys may be able to get you the compensation you need and deserve.