Asbestos Exposure by Neighborhood

This site organizes asbestos exposure data at the neighborhood level — the most precise geographic unit for matching workers to specific facilities. Industrial corridors like the Houston Ship Channel neighborhoods and the Kanawha Valley communities each contain dozens of documented exposure sites within a few square miles.

Houston Ship Channel Neighborhoods

Ship Channel / Galena Park
14+ sites — Shell, Texaco, Gulf, Rohm&Haas, Todd Deer Park
9 sites — Shell Deer Park, BASF, Celanese, Borden Pasadena
11 sites — Chevron Phillips, LyondellBasell, Goodyear Channelview
7 sites — Lyondell/Arco, Celanese, Borden, Vista East End / Navigation Blvd
8 sites — Continental Can, Gulf States Steel, Industrial Tank Fifth Ward
5 sites — Southern Pacific Railroad, Hughes Tool

Louisiana Industrial Corridors

New Orleans / Avondale
Avondale Shipyards — 26,000 WWII workers Baton Rouge Refinery Row
ExxonMobil, Shell, Dow, BASF Geismar Lake Charles Petrochemical
Conoco, Citgo, PPG — 1-yr deadline

Florida Military & Shipyard Zones

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

Georgia Industrial Zones

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

Illinois Steel & Rail Zones

Chicago / Calumet Region
US Steel South Works, Inland Steel, Crane Co. Peoria
Caterpillar Peoria Complex, Keystone Steel

Michigan Auto & Chemical Zones

Detroit / Dearborn
Ford River Rouge Complex — 100,000+ peak workers Midland
Dow Chemical, Dow Corning

New Jersey Industrial Zones

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

New York Shipyard & Steel Zones

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

Ohio Steel & Rubber Zones

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

California Shipyard Zones

Hunters Point / Bayview
Hunters Point NS, Bethlehem Steel SF Richmond / Mare Island
Kaiser Richmond (90,000 workers), Mare Island NS Long Beach / Terminal Island
Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Signal Hill oil fields

West Virginia Chemical Valley

Institute / Belle / South Charleston
Union Carbide, DuPont, FMC — “Chemical Valley” Nitro, WV
Monsanto Nitro Plant (1917–1995)

Virginia Shipyard Zone

Newport News
Newport News Shipbuilding (Huntington Ingalls) — largest private shipyard in the US Norfolk / Portsmouth
Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Naval Station Norfolk — world’s largest naval base

Maryland Steel & Shipbuilding Zone

Sparrows Point / Dundalk
Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point — world’s largest steel mill, 35,000 workers Baltimore
Bethlehem Steel Key Highway, Maryland Dry Dock, W.R. Grace Curtis Bay

Massachusetts Shipyard Zone

Quincy (Fore River Shipyard)
Bethlehem Steel / General Dynamics — 32,000 WWII workers, 227 vessels Boston / Charlestown
Boston Navy Yard, GE River Works Lynn — continuous ops 1800–1974

Alabama Industrial Zones

Mobile (ADDSCO)
Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding — 75,000 WWII workers, largest AL employer ever Birmingham / Fairfield
US Steel Fairfield (TCI), Sloss Furnaces, ACIPCO — “Pittsburgh of the South”

Mississippi Gulf Coast Shipyards

Pascagoula (Ingalls Shipbuilding)
Huntington Ingalls Industries — 25,000 Cold War peak workers, still active Gulfport
Gulfport Shipbuilding, Naval Station Gulfport (Seabees), Port of Gulfport

Indiana Steel Corridor

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

Minnesota Iron Range & Lake Superior Zone

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

Connecticut Submarine & Manufacturing Zone

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

South Carolina Naval & Textile Zone

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

Missouri Aerospace & Rail Zone

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

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