Asbestos Exposure by City

Browse documented asbestos exposure sites by city. Industrial cities near major port facilities, shipyards, and petrochemical corridors have the highest concentrations of documented exposure sites.

Texas Cities

Houston Ship Channel
14+ sites — Shell, Texaco, Todd Shipyards Deer Park, TX
9 sites — Shell, BASF, Celanese Pasadena, TX
11 sites — Chevron Phillips, LyondellBasell Channelview, TX
7 sites — Lyondell/Arco, Celanese, Borden Beaumont / Golden Triangle
9+ sites — Texaco, Gulf Oil, DuPont Port Arthur, TX
9 sites — Texaco, Gulf Oil, Mobil Galveston / Texas City
8 sites — Todd Shipyards, AMOCO, Marathon Corpus Christi, TX
8 sites — CCAD, Valero, Koch refinery

Louisiana Cities

New Orleans, LA
Avondale Shipyards, Higgins Industries, Todd-Johnson Baton Rouge, LA
ExxonMobil, Shell, Dow, Georgia-Pacific Lake Charles, LA
Conoco, Citgo, PPG — 1-year filing deadline

California Cities

San Francisco / Bay Area
Hunters Point NS, Mare Island, Kaiser Richmond Los Angeles, CA
Rockwell/NAA, Hughes, Lockheed, Long Beach Naval Long Beach, CA
Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Signal Hill, refinery row

Pennsylvania Cities

Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Navy Yard, Sun Oil Marcus Hook, Budd Co. Pittsburgh, PA
U.S. Steel, J&L Steel, Bethlehem, Westinghouse

Washington State Cities

Bremerton / PSNS
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard — 15,000+ civilian workers Seattle, WA
Boeing, Todd Shipyards, PACCAR

West Virginia Cities

Charleston / Kanawha Valley
Union Carbide, DuPont Belle, FMC, Monsanto Nitro