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

Florida Cities

Jacksonville, FL
NAS Jacksonville, Mayport Naval Station, Blount Island Tampa, FL
Tampa Shipbuilding, MacDill AFB, Gannon Power Station

Georgia Cities

Savannah, GA
Southeastern Shipbuilding Corp., Union Camp pulp mill Marietta, GA
Lockheed-Georgia, Dobbins Air Reserve Base

Illinois Cities

Chicago, IL
US Steel South Works, Inland Steel, Crane Co. Peoria, IL
Caterpillar Peoria Complex, Keystone Steel

Michigan Cities

Detroit, MI
Ford River Rouge, Chrysler Jefferson, GM Fisher Body Midland, MI
Dow Chemical, Dow Corning

New Jersey Cities

Camden, NJ
New York Shipbuilding Corporation Manville, NJ
Johns-Manville Corporation flagship plant

New York Cities

Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Navy Yard — 70,000+ WWII workers, Con Edison Buffalo, NY
Bethlehem Steel Lackawanna, Republic Steel

Ohio Cities

Cleveland, OH
Republic Steel, Jones & Laughlin (LTV), Ford Cleveland Akron, OH
BF Goodrich, Goodyear, Firestone Youngstown, OH
Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Republic Steel

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

Virginia Cities

Newport News, VA
Newport News Shipbuilding — largest private shipyard in the US Norfolk, VA
Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Naval Station Norfolk

Maryland Cities

Baltimore, MD
Bethlehem Steel Key Highway, Maryland Dry Dock, W.R. Grace Dundalk, MD
Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point — 35,000 workers at peak

Massachusetts Cities

Quincy, MA
Fore River Shipyard — 32,000 WWII workers Boston, MA
Boston Navy Yard, GE River Works Lynn

Alabama Cities

Mobile, AL
ADDSCO — 75,000 WWII workers Birmingham, AL
US Steel Fairfield, Sloss Furnaces, ACIPCO

Mississippi Cities

Pascagoula, MS
Ingalls Shipbuilding — 25,000 Cold War peak workers Gulfport, MS
Gulfport Shipbuilding, Naval Station Gulfport

Indiana Cities

Gary, IN
US Steel Gary Works — 30,000 peak workers East Chicago, IN
Inland Steel Indiana Harbor Works

Minnesota Cities

Hibbing, MN
Hull-Rust-Mahoning Mine, Iron Range taconite mining Duluth, MN
Duluth-Superior Harbor, Great Lakes ore freighters

Connecticut Cities

Groton, CT
General Dynamics Electric Boat submarine shipyard Bridgeport, CT
Bridgeport Brass, Remington Arms, Singer Manufacturing

South Carolina Cities

Charleston, SC
Charleston Naval Shipyard — 26,000 WWII peak workers Spartanburg, SC
Spartan Mills, Mayfair Mills — Upstate textile corridor

Missouri Cities

St. Louis, MO
McDonnell Douglas, Monsanto Chemical, Chrysler Fenton Kansas City, MO
GM Fairfax Assembly Plant, Burlington Northern Railroad