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Exposure sites · Alaska
Alaska Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…Roe, Owens Corning, and Johns-Manville. Babcock & Wilcox lists the plant from 1962; Owens Corning lists its gas turbine and General Electric turbine work from 1972. Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Owens Corning insulation, its…
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Exposure sites · Kentucky
Kentucky Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…most entries in the state: the Rubbertown chemical plants built during World War II, DuPont's neoprene works among them, General Electric's Appliance Park, Ford's assembly plants, and the bourbon distilleries.7 worksitesChemical plants…
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Exposure sites · Massachusetts
Massachusetts Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…on the Mystic River across from Charlestown, combined Monsanto's chemical works with Boston Edison's Mystic Station and a General Electric plant.2 worksitesChemical plants. Chemical plants combined high heat with corrosive service: furnaces and…
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Exposure sites · New York
New York Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…and Hooker Chemical at Niagara Falls; central New York and the Capital District — the Solvay Process works on Onondaga Lake and General Electric's Schenectady Works; Rochester and the Southern Tier — Eastman Kodak's Kodak Park…
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Exposure sites · Indiana
Indiana Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…covering and sealed with asbestos gaskets. A paper mill's recovery boilers were among the most asbestos-intensive equipment anywhere. Colgate-Palmolive plant — Jeffersonville General Electric plant — Shelbyville Chemical plants. Chemical plants combined high heat with…
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Exposure sites · New Hampshire
New Hampshire Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…asbestos gaskets. A paper mill's recovery boilers were among the most asbestos-intensive equipment anywhere. Brezner Tanning Corporation — Penacook Franconia Paper Corporation mill — Lincoln General Electric Somersworth plant — Somersworth Groveton Paper mill (Diamond International, Wausau…
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Exposure sites · Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…heat-treated: refractory brick and cement, insulation on furnaces and ladles, and asbestos protective clothing. Bethlehem Steel Bethlehem plant ErieErie's largest employer was General Electric's works, which built locomotives; Hammermill Paper and Erie Forge…
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Exposure sites · Vermont
Vermont Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…largest city: the University of Vermont and the Mary Fletcher Hospital, its teaching hospital, Burlington Light and Power's gas plant, and General Electric's manufacturing plant.4 worksitesPublic and commercial buildings. Office towers, hospitals, schools…
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Exposure sites · Washington
Washington Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…the farm towns of Hanford and White Bluffs in 1943 to build it, and du Pont, General Electric, and later contractors operated it for the Atomic Energy Commission. The trusts list it under Hanford Engineer Works…
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Exposure sites · Connecticut
Connecticut Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…steam lines wrapped and sealed with asbestos. On the trusts' lists, Connecticut's entries fall into five corridors: the Thames River at Groton — General Dynamics' Electric Boat shipyard, the Naval Submarine Base, and Pfizer's plant…
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Exposure sites · Tennessee
Tennessee Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
Cheap electricity remade Tennessee in the middle of the twentieth century. The Tennessee Valley Authority's dams, and then its coal-fired steam plants, drew the Manhattan Project to Oak Ridge in 1942 and powered the…
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Exposure sites · Michigan
Michigan Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…and the millwrights, pipefitters, and electricians who kept the lines running worked around it every shift. General Motors Saginaw grey iron foundry (Chevrolet; Saginaw Metal Casting) Saginaw Steering Gear (Delphi Saginaw Steering Systems) TrentonTrenton, on the…
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Exposure sites · Minnesota
Minnesota Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…Rainy, St. Louis, and Mississippi rivers; and coal and crude oil brought into the state became electricity, fuel, and the products of a broad Twin Cities manufacturing economy. Each of those steps ran on heat, and…
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Exposure sites · Missouri
Missouri Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…railcars, and beer: McDonnell Aircraft at Lambert Field, General Motors' Chevrolet plant, American Car and Foundry, and the Anheuser-Busch brewery, with Monsanto's chemical plants and Union Electric's power stations alongside.9 worksitesSteel, metals…
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Exposure sites · North Dakota
North Dakota Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…belt of Mercer and Oliver counties — the Milton R. Young Station at Center, Basin Electric's Leland Olds Station at Stanton, and the Great Plains Synfuels Plant at Beulah; Bismarck and Mandan — the Mandan refinery and…
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Exposure sites · South Dakota
South Dakota Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
Most South Dakota asbestos was not in big factories. It was in boiler rooms: the coal-fired stations that carried electricity across a rural state, the steam plants that heated its hospitals, colleges, and courthouses through…
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Exposure sites · Hawaii
Hawaii Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…by island, the trusts' Hawaii entries fall like this: Pearl Harbor and the Oahu plantations — Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaiian Electric's Waiau plant at Pearl City, and the Oahu Sugar Company mill at Waipahu; Honolulu…
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Exposure sites · Nebraska
Nebraska Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…Omaha — Union Pacific's headquarters and shops, the Swift and Wilson packing plants, and Western Electric's Omaha Works; south of Omaha — Allied Chemical's nitrogen plant at La Platte, Offutt Air Force Base at Bellevue…
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Exposure sites · Ohio
Ohio Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…U.S. Steel's Lorain Works, and Cleveland Electric Illuminating's Avon Lake plant; Akron and Barberton — Goodyear and Firestone in the city once called the Rubber Capital of the World, and the Babcock & Wilcox boiler…
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Exposure sites · South Carolina
South Carolina Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage
…Navy built and repaired warships at Charleston, the government built its atomic plant on the Savannah River, and Duke Power and South Carolina Electric & Gas put up coal, hydro, and nuclear stations to power it all…