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

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)

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