Procter & Gamble — Cincinnati Ivorydale, St. Bernard, Lima & Winton Hill Ohio Asbestos Exposure & Claims
Plaintiffs allegedly were exposed to asbestos at Procter & Gamble's Ohio consumer products plants — Cincinnati world HQ, Ivorydale soap, St. Bernard, Lima paper, and Winton Hill R&D. Sprayed fireproofing, asbestos pipe covering, and asbestos-cement roofing. OBLF consultation.
By Rights Watch Media Group LLC
•July 5, 2026
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Updated July 5, 2026
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3 min read
Procter & Gamble in Ohio — Cincinnati, Ivorydale, St. Bernard, Lima & Winton Hill
Ohio is Procter & Gamble Company’s largest state footprint — its world headquarters and its oldest and largest manufacturing complex. P&G allegedly operated the following documented plants in Ohio during the U.S. asbestos era (roughly 1930s through the 1980s), according to publicly filed asbestos litigation records:
- Cincinnati OH — world headquarters — corporate downtown campus (early 20th century onward)
- Ivorydale (St. Bernard / Cincinnati) OH — flagship soap plant — Ivory soap manufacturing, saponification kettle house, spray-dryer towers, oleochemical / fatty-acid operations (opened 1886; expanded continuously through the asbestos era)
- St. Bernard OH — chemical / oleochemical operations — adjacent to Ivorydale, fatty-acid splitting and glycerin recovery
- Lima OH — paper products / consumer-products plant
- Winton Hill (Cincinnati) OH — Winton Hill Technical Center R&D campus
- Sharon Woods (Cincinnati) OH — R&D and technical operations
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Procter & Gamble Ohio plants allegedly involved asbestos-containing materials across the era:
- Asbestos pipe covering allegedly on steam mains, oleochemical process piping, saponification kettle lines, and utility lines throughout Ivorydale and St. Bernard
- Asbestos sheet gaskets allegedly at fatty-acid saponification kettles, spray-dryer atomizers, oleochemical reactors, glycerin evaporators, and process piping flanges
- Asbestos-block hot-side lagging allegedly on powerhouse boilers, deaerators, steam headers, and spray-dryer combustion chambers
- Asbestos refractory allegedly at powerhouse boilers and spray-dryer combustion chambers
- Asbestos-fabric arc chute plates allegedly in plant switchgear, motor control centers, and load contactors at the Ivorydale substation and plant electrical rooms
- Asbestos sprayed fireproofing allegedly on structural steel columns and floor decking in multi-story Ivorydale production halls (pre-1973 EPA ban)
- Asbestos-cement roofing panels and siding allegedly on Ivorydale warehouses, packing bays, and machine buildings
- Asbestos-fabric expansion joints allegedly on plant vent stacks and steam headers
- Asbestos rope packing allegedly on plant pumps, agitators, kettle stirrers, and centrifuges
- Asbestos-block insulation allegedly on Lima OH paper-mill Yankee dryer sections, hood insulation, and Fourdrinier steam-heated dryer cans
Workers Exposed at P&G Ohio Plants
- HFIAW Insulators (pipe covering and block insulation on steam, oleochemical, and paper-mill dryer sections)
- UA Pipefitters (flange bolt-up on saponification kettles, spray dryers, oleochemical reactors, and process piping)
- IBB Boilermakers (Ivorydale powerhouse boilers and Lima paper-mill recovery boilers)
- BAC Bricklayers (refractory work on boilers and spray-dryer combustion chambers)
- IBEW Electricians (Ivorydale substation, plant switchgear, MCC, and motor rewind)
- Millwrights (spray dryer, saponification kettle, paper machine, and packaging line installation)
- P&G soap-plant, oleochemical, and paper-plant production workers
- Ironworkers (structural steel erection beneath sprayed asbestos fireproofing at Ivorydale, pre-1973)
- USW paper workers around Lima OH paper-machine dryer sections
If You Worked at Procter & Gamble in Ohio
If you or a family member worked at Ivorydale, St. Bernard, the Cincinnati headquarters, Lima, Winton Hill, Sharon Woods, or any other Procter & Gamble Ohio plant before 1980 and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim.
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Skilled Trades Exposed at Industrial Facilities Like This One
Asbestos exposure at industrial jobsites concentrated in the skilled trades that built, operated, and maintained the plant:
Procter & Gamble — Cincinnati Ivorydale, St. Bernard, Lima & Winton Hill Ohio Asbestos Exposure & Claims — Frequently Asked Questions
Is Procter & Gamble — Cincinnati Ivorydale, St. Bernard, Lima & Winton Hill Ohio Asbestos Exposure & Claims documented in asbestos litigation records?
Yes. Procter & Gamble — Cincinnati Ivorydale, St. Bernard, Lima & Winton Hill Ohio 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 Procter & Gamble — Cincinnati Ivorydale, St. Bernard, Lima & Winton Hill Ohio 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 Procter & Gamble — Cincinnati Ivorydale, St. Bernard, Lima & Winton Hill Ohio 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 Ohio?
Ohio law gives 2 years from the date of medical diagnosis to file a personal-injury asbestos lawsuit. Wrongful-death claims must be filed within 2 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 Procter & Gamble — Cincinnati Ivorydale, St. Bernard, Lima & Winton Hill Ohio 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 Ohio 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.
Disclaimer: The information in this article is for general educational purposes only and does not constitute medical or legal advice. No attorney-client relationship is created by reading this site. References to companies, products, and facilities are drawn from public asbestos litigation records, court filings, and regulatory databases. Consult a licensed physician for medical guidance and a qualified attorney for legal advice regarding your specific situation.
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