Boeing Company — Plants in Illinois

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to asbestos while working at Boeing Company plants in Illinois. This page documents the Illinois portion of Boeing Company’s multi-state operations. For the full corporate summary and plants in other states, see the Boeing Company manufacturer page.

Premises Description

The Boeing Company (founded 1916, headquartered Seattle WA through 2001, Chicago IL 2001-2022, today Arlington VA) is through the 20th century and today one of the largest U.S. aerospace and defense manufacturers. Boeing operates and historically operated through the asbestos era a major network of U.S. aerospace manufacturing plants:

  • Renton WA — historic 707/727/737 commercial airliner plant
  • Everett WA — 747/767/777/787 wide-body assembly plant
  • Seattle WA — Boeing Field, Plant 2, multiple legacy operations
  • Wichita KS — Boeing Wichita military aerospace and Stearman heritage (sold to Spirit AeroSystems 2005)
  • St. Louis MO — McDonnell Douglas legacy site (acquired 1997)
  • Long Beach CA — Douglas legacy commercial airliner plant
  • Charleston SC — Boeing 787 South Carolina assembly
  • Philadelphia PA — Boeing Rotorcraft (former Boeing Vertol)
  • Mesa AZ — military rotorcraft

Each of Boeing’s major plants operated through the asbestos era with extensive asbestos-containing infrastructure: pipe covering on plant steam and process piping, block insulation on boilers and heat exchangers, refractory in heat-treat furnaces and metal-processing equipment, gaskets and packing at process flanges and pumps, electrical insulation on plant motor and switchgear systems, and spray-applied asbestos fireproofing on aircraft-hangar structural steel and plant structural members.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Boeing — as premises owner — exposed its IAM and UAW aerospace machinist workforce and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos.

The Boeing Company has been named as a Premises Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.

Workers Exposed

  • IAM / UAW Local members at Boeing aerospace plants
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working Boeing capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on Boeing construction and turnaround crews
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) building Boeing plant equipment
  • Electricians (IBEW Local members) working Boeing plant electrical systems
  • Construction-trade workforces on Boeing aircraft-hangar and plant capital projects

If You Worked at a Boeing Plant

If you worked at a Boeing Company aerospace manufacturing plant during the asbestos era — as a Boeing employee or as a dispatched contractor trade worker — and have since been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, or another asbestos-related illness, you may have legal rights.

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