The San Diego Naval Station has been a major site of asbestos exposure for individuals who later developed mesothelioma. Sadly, many of our clients are Navy men. In fact, more than 30 percent of Americans that develop mesothelioma were exposed to asbestos during military service.
Most military divisions utilized the cancerous substance for insulation purposes, but more than 300 products containing asbestos were used by the military, primarily by the Navy from the 1930s through the 1970s. Every ship and shipyard built by the Navy before the mid-70s was fitted with numerous asbestos-containing materials. Products such as turbines, generators, pumps, valves, gaskets, packing, cements and pipe covering all contained asbestos.
The San Diego naval base had active ship repair basins until 1945. After 1945 and up to 1972, members of the Navy used the basins to dispose solid waste, scrap metal, demolition debris, lubricants and oils, and paint sludge. Shipyards have long been associated with asbestos-related diseases, and evidence reported by U.S. shipyard workers employed during and after World War II appears in a 1983 hearing before a House of Representatives subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations.2 Furthermore, after the SS Morro Castle burned down in 1934, government regulations mandated greater fire safety and use of fire-retardant materials like asbestos.
Common work environments where a mesothelioma or cancer patient may have encountered asbestos include shipyards, oil refineries, sheet metal plants, automotive plants, construction sites, and many more. Here is a complete list of sites that have been linked to asbestos in California:
Burbank
Lockheed Martin Aircraft Terminal
Lockheed Martin Aircraft Service
Camp Pendleton
Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base
U.S. Marine Base Field Medical School
Long Beach
Long Beach Naval Station
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Bethlehem Steel Shipyard
California Shipbuilding Company
Todd Shipyard
Proctor & Gamble Plant
U.S.S. Cavalier
U.S. Naval Shipyard
Los Angeles
Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) Refinery
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
ARCO Twin Towers
Los Angeles County Jail
Tishman Office Building
Firestone Tire Store
Ford Assembly Plant
Southern Edison Building
Texas Corporation Office Building
University of California Medical Center
Western Pipe & Steel Company
U.S. Rubber Tire & Synthetic Rubber Plant
Union Pacific Switchyard
Western Pipe & Steel Plant
Richmond
Standard Oil Refinery
Chevron Refinery
Willamette Shipyard
Shell Oil Refinery
Richmond Kaiser Shipyards (#1- #4)
San Bernardino
Norton Air Force Base
San Diego
San Diego Naval Shipyard
Naval Training Center (NTC)
San Diego Naval Base
Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island
Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar
Naval Station (NAVSTA) 32nd Street
Campbell Shipyard
Conair Aircraft Plant
San Diego Marine Base
Point Loma Naval Submarine Base
U.S. Navy Troop Transport Ship
Southwest Marine Shipyard
Industrial Command U.S. Naval Repair Base
Camp Kearney
National Steel Shipbuilding (NASSCO) aka General Dynamics
Consolidated Aircraft Corp
San Diego Gas & Electric Building
Naval Supply Center
Naval Housing
Port Nimitz Naval Base
San Diego Power Plant
San Diego Military Station
Silver Gate Power Plant
San Diego Radio School
Silver Gate Power Plant
Valley Electric
San Francisco
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
San Francisco Naval Shipyard
Bethlehem Steel Shipyard
Treasure Island Naval
Moore Drydock Shipyard
U.S. Naval Base
Western Pipe & Steel Shipyard
Candlestick Park Office Building
Western Pipe & Steel
Southern Pacific Railroad Office Buildings A and B
U.S. Steel Shipyard
Wilmington
ARCO Refinery (Atlantic Richfield Co)
Consolidated Steel Shipyard
Texaco Refinery
Bethlehem Steel
Union Oil Refinery
ARCO Oil Company
UNOCAL Oil Refinery
Standard Oil
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