Located in Chester, Pennsylvania on the Delaware River, the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company built tankers and other ships. Its 70+ years in operation spanned the period when asbestos was used to construct military vessels and ships of all kinds. As a result, the company’s workers and anyone who spent time on its property were exposed to the carcinogenic
Seward Ships Drydock is located in Seward, Alaska. Opened in 1973 when asbestos was still being used extensively in shipbuilding, the shipyard’s workers experienced significant exposure to asbestos from the materials they used while repairing and rebuilding the marine vessels brought to them for their shipbuilding and repair expertise, as well as from asbestos already in place in the
Jefferson Proving Ground is a former military proving ground located near Madison, Indiana. Operated between 1940 and 1995 (and with a parcel of the site continuing to be used as an air-to-surface gunnery and bombing range by the Indiana Air National Guard), the site was chosen for its location close to multiple ammunition manufacturing plants,
Chemical plants are industrial facilities that use multiple processes and reactions to convert raw materials into chemicals for either commercial or consumer use. They can be dangerous places, as the substances used to achieve their end goals may be combustible, toxic, corrosive, or all three. While chemical plant workers are trained to use extreme caution
Whether they volunteered or were drafted, and no matter when they served, America’s veterans had a strong sense of the risks they faced — but none of them anticipated that their service would put them at risk for malignant mesothelioma or other asbestos-related diseases. Today is Veteran’s Day – the day the nation set aside
In the last 30 years, HGTV has made us all experts on load-bearing walls and sliding barn doors. While we’ve seen the magic that new landscaping can make on curb appeal, we’ve also watched experts cringe when they walk into a home and find popcorn or textured ceilings. Once considered decorative, these features may or
Rock Island Arsenal is a 946-acre Army base located on what is today known as Arsenal Island but was originally named Rock Island. Positioned on the Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois, the arsenal is home to the U.S. Army First Army Headquarters and the U.S. Army Center of Excellence for Additive
Founded in 1888, ALCOA (Aluminum Company of America) was the first mass producer of aluminum and today is the eighth-largest producer of aluminum in the world. For almost 100 years of its operations, ALCOA relied heavily on asbestos throughout its facilities, using it to line its furnaces and pots, insulate its plants, and protect its workers from hot
The New Cumberland Defense Depot, located in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, has a long and storied history dating back to 1918. Over the past 100+ years, it has fulfilled missions ranging from reserve depot to helicopter maintenance and repair and has been home to soldiers, farm animals, and even a nine-hole golf course. Because the depot operated through
There is sometimes a significant gap between the results of clinical trials and what physicians see in the real world, and that can lead to unexpected outcomes. To assess whether the use of ipilimumab and nivolumab in mesothelioma patients would deliver what was indicated in the renowned CheckMate 743 study, a multicenter group of physicians