Eagle-Picher: Workplaces, Trades and Memory
Use the setting, coworkers and work processes to reconstruct an industrial history.
Places and systems
Potentially relevant settings for investigating thermal insulation include boiler rooms, generating stations, factories, ships and industrial maintenance areas. A general industrial setting does not establish that Eagle-Picher products were present.
People and work
Think of insulators, pipefitters, boiler mechanics, millwrights, electricians and maintenance crews who worked near insulated systems. Identify whether the memory involves installation, repairs, demolition or routine operations.
Specific clues
A job ticket, work order, dated plant photograph, company badge, material supplier, nearby contractor or old carton can connect a recollection to a narrower product and period.
A different kind of Eagle-Picher memory
Batteries, lead and other Eagle-Picher businesses form part of its company history but should not be conflated with asbestos insulation products.
Original historical records
Follow the underlying federal notices, court decisions and bankruptcy history.
Start with what you remember
A product name, job, coworker, photograph or date can help reconstruct the history.