Rockwell International — Plants in Wisconsin

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

Premises Description

Rockwell International Corporation (formed 1973 by merger of North American Rockwell Corporation and Rockwell Manufacturing Company; broken up 1996-2001 with divisions spun off to Boeing, Meritor, Rockwell Automation, Rockwell Collins, and others) was through the 1970s-1990s one of the largest U.S. aerospace, defense, automotive, and industrial conglomerates. Rockwell operated through the asbestos era U.S. manufacturing plants including:

  • Downey CA — Rockwell Space Systems Division (Apollo Command Module, Space Shuttle orbiter final assembly; today aerospace park redevelopment)
  • Palmdale CA (USAF Plant 42) — B-1B Lancer bomber final assembly
  • Seal Beach CA — Rockwell Space Division corporate
  • El Segundo CA — Rockwell Autonetics (avionics, navigation, inertial systems)
  • Cedar Rapids IA — Rockwell Collins (avionics, communications — spun off 2001, today Collins Aerospace)
  • Troy MI — Rockwell Automotive (heavy-truck axles and drivetrains — spun off as Meritor 1997)
  • Milwaukee WI — Rockwell Automation (Allen-Bradley) — spun off 2001
  • Newark OH, Sunnyvale CA, Warminster PA — additional operations

Rockwell heavy-truck axle operations at Troy MI and elsewhere manufactured axles specified with asbestos brake friction material on heavy-truck brake drums used across U.S. heavy-truck OEMs. Rockwell aerospace and space operations at Downey, Palmdale, and El Segundo used extensive asbestos-containing plant infrastructure through the asbestos era.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Rockwell International — as premises owner — exposed its aerospace, defense, automotive, and industrial workforce and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos.

Rockwell International / Boeing / Meritor / Rockwell Automation / Rockwell Collins has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant (truck-axle brake friction) and Premises Defendant (manufacturing plants) in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.

Workers Exposed

  • IAM / UAW aerospace machinist Local members at Rockwell Downey, Palmdale, El Segundo, Cedar Rapids
  • UAW / heavy-truck manufacturing workers at Rockwell Automotive Troy MI (later Meritor)
  • Brake mechanics working Rockwell / Meritor heavy-truck axle brake components
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working Rockwell capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on Rockwell construction and turnaround crews
  • Construction-trade workforces on Rockwell EPC projects

If You Worked at a Rockwell International Plant

If you worked at a Rockwell International Corporation aerospace, space, defense, automotive, or industrial manufacturing plant during the asbestos era — at Downey CA, Palmdale CA, El Segundo CA, Cedar Rapids IA, Troy MI, Milwaukee WI, or any other Rockwell site — as an 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