California Industrial, Chemical & Refinery Jobsites — Asbestos Exposure
California's steel mills, chemical plants, oil refineries, and heavy manufacturing facilities were among the region's most intensive asbestos worksites. Process piping, reactors, boilers, and furnace linings required asbestos insulation and refractory throughout construction and decades of maintenance outages. Workers returning for seasonal and annual shutdowns accumulated exposures at multiple facilities across their careers. Click any site to read its full documented exposure history.
Full index of all 50 industrial, chemical and refinery sites
- Procter & Gamble — Sacramento, Long Beach & Oxnard California Asbestos Exposure & Claims
- CertainTeed — Chowchilla CA Plant Asbestos Exposure
- CertainTeed — Riverside CA Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Johns-Manville — Corona CA Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Johns-Manville — Lompoc CA Asbestos Fiber Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Johns-Manville — Pittsburg CA Transite Pipe Plant Asbestos Exposure
- National Gypsum (Gold Bond) — Long Beach CA Wallboard Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Bethlehem Steel Corporation — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- BP / British Petroleum / Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio) / BP Amoco — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Brooklyn Navy Yard / Charleston Naval Shipyard / Long Beach Naval Shipyard — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Chevron Corporation (Standard Oil of California / SoCal / Gulf Oil) — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Convair / General Dynamics Convair — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- ExxonMobil (Exxon / Mobil / Standard Oil of NJ / Standard Oil of NY) — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Firestone Tire & Rubber Company — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- General Dynamics Corporation — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- General Mills Inc. — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Getty Oil / Tidewater — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- IBM (International Business Machines) — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Kaiser Industries / Kaiser Permanente Cement / Kaiser Shipyards — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Kaiser Richmond CA WWII Shipyards No. 1-4 — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Kraft Foods Corporation — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Litton Industries — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Lockheed Corporation / Lockheed Martin — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Miller Brewing Company — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- NASSCO (National Steel and Shipbuilding) — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Northrop Grumman Corporation — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Pabst Brewing Company — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Pearl Harbor / Mare Island / Portsmouth Naval Shipyards — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Praxair / Union Carbide Industrial Gases — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Raytheon Company — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Rockwell International — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Shell Oil Company — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Southern California Edison (SCE / Edison International) — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- The Dow Chemical Company — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Todd Shipyards Corporation — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Union Oil Company of California (Unocal) / Pure Oil — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Union Pacific Railroad — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Valero Energy / Ultramar Diamond Shamrock / Tosco — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Xerox Corporation — California Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Boeing Long Beach McDonnell Douglas California — Long Beach
- Chevron Richmond Refinery California — Richmond
- ExxonMobil Mobil Torrance Refinery California — Torrance
- Hunters Point Naval Shipyard San Francisco California — San Francisco
- Lockheed Burbank Skunk Works California — Burbank
- Long Beach Naval Shipyard California — Long Beach
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard Vallejo California — Vallejo
Map shows 50 documented California industrial, chemical, and refinery exposure sites. Click any marker to visit the site's full report.
California Industrial & Chemical Sites
Procter & Gamble in California — Long Beach, Sacramento & Oxnard
Procter & Gamble Company allegedly operated the following documented consumer-products plants in …
CertainTeed — Chowchilla Plant in Chowchilla CA
Plaintiffs have alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to …
CertainTeed — Riverside Plant in Riverside CA
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Johns-Manville — Corona Plant in Corona, California
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Johns-Manville — Lompoc CA Plant
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Johns-Manville — Pittsburg Plant in Pittsburg, California
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National Gypsum — Long Beach Wallboard Plant in Long Beach CA
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were …
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) — Plants in California
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Bethlehem Steel Corporation — Plants in California
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BP / British Petroleum / Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio) / BP Amoco — Plants in California
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Brooklyn Navy Yard / Charleston Naval Shipyard / Long Beach Naval Shipyard — Plants in California
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Chevron Corporation (Standard Oil of California / SoCal / Gulf Oil) — Plants in California
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Convair / General Dynamics Convair — Plants in California
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ExxonMobil (Exxon / Mobil / Standard Oil of NJ / Standard Oil of NY) — Plants in California
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Firestone Tire & Rubber Company — Plants in California
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General Dynamics Corporation — Plants in California
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General Mills Inc. — Plants in California
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to asbestos while …
Getty Oil / Tidewater — Plants in California
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to asbestos …
IBM (International Business Machines) — Plants in California
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Kaiser Industries / Kaiser Permanente Cement / Kaiser Shipyards — Plants in California
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Kaiser Richmond CA WWII Shipyards No. 1-4 — Plants in California
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were …
Kraft Foods Corporation — Plants in California
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to asbestos …
Litton Industries — Plants in California
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to asbestos while …
Lockheed Corporation / Lockheed Martin — Plants in California
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were …
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