Cement is a strong, durable material that has been used for centuries to build roads, buildings, and infrastructure. The components used to make cement have changed over the years, and from the early 1900s until the 1980s, it was commonly made using asbestos. Asbestos use created harmful dust within cement plant factory environments, and employees
Todd Shipyards was founded in 1916 in Brooklyn, New York, and became one of the largest independent shipbuilding companies in the United States. Todd Shipyards was also a significant source of asbestos exposure during its years of operation. Workers representing a wide range of skills and professions were exposed to asbestos-containing pumps, valves, gaskets, boilers, tanks, and other equipment,
API, Inc. was a Minnesota-based industrial insulation contractor that sold, distributed, and installed asbestos-containing insulation and other products until 1973. The company largely conducted business in Minnesota and North Dakota, though its reach extended to South Dakota, western Wisconsin, and northern Michigan. When hundreds of individuals diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma, asbestosis, asbestos-related lung cancer, and
Though the vast majority of asbestos-related diseases come from occupational exposure that occurred decades ago, legacy asbestos also poses a very real, continuing risk. Legacy asbestos refers to asbestos that remains in buildings, vehicles, infrastructure, and equipment from years ago. Though legacy asbestos is considered harmless when intact, it can lead to exposure if disturbed
Today, the mere mention of asbestos evokes a sense of danger, but for centuries it was viewed as a sort of miracle material. The fibrous mineral has been used since the ancient Greeks took advantage of its flame retardance to spin it into cloth for use on tables holding ceremonial candles. In the United States,
Fort Knox is a U.S. Army base located in the state of Kentucky. For more than a century, it has served variously as a training center, an Airfield, home to several Cavalry regiments and armored divisions, and today serves as the home of the Army Human Resources Command Center, training 10,000 ROTC cadets each summer.
A-Best Products Company manufactured and sold safety products that were designed to protect the wearer from high heat, flame, and dangerous chemicals. Asbestos in A-Best Products, like industrial gloves, aprons, and other accessories, put wearers at risk for asbestos-related diseases, including malignant mesothelioma, asbestos-related lung cancer, and asbestosis. A-Best Products Company History and Asbestos A-Best
Located on the Puget Sound in Washington State, what was once Fort Lewis officially became Joint Base Lewis-McChord after 2010, when it was made one of twelve joint bases across the Department of Defense. Created in support of training and deployment for World War I, the base is one of America’s most strategically vital bases, and
Invented in 1884 by Baltimore watchmaker Ottmar Mergenthaler, the Linotype machine was described by Thomas Edison as the “eighth wonder of the world.” It reduced the amount of time that it took to prepare a single page of newspaper from two or three days down to an hour, bringing the news to people on a daily
Seneca Army Depot was built immediately before 1940 to serve as a munitions storage facility for the U.S. military. Located in Romulus, New York, it operated for sixty years, supplying nearly all of the ammunition and military supplies sent to support American troops before the base closed in 1995. During the years that the depot