Florida Asbestos Exposure

There are many sites in Florida where asbestos exposure occurred including Cape Canaveral. NASA technical reports indicate that asbestos was used in numerous applications that included soldering bases and pressurized vessels used to contain gases and rocket fuel. During the last twenty years of the 20th Century, Brevard County – home of Cape Canaveral - reported 87 deaths due to asbestos exposure. Approximately sixty of these deaths were attributed to mesothelioma. Broward County, however, reported 300 asbestos deaths during the same time period but the ratio of asbestos cancer to asbestosis victims was roughly equal. Florida Cities where Asbestos Exposure Occurred Provided below is a list of cities in the state of Florida where asbestos jobsites are known to have been located. If you worked at any of these companies and/or jobsites in Florida there is a possibility that you may have been exposed to harmful asbestos which is known to cause mesothelioma. Click on any link to view a complete list of jobsites in that city. Bartow Fernandina Beach Fort Lauderdale Fort Pierce Gainesville Jacksonville Key West Lake City Lakeland Miami Mulberry Orlando Palatka Panama City Pensacola Port Saint Joe Saint Petersburg Tallahassee Tampa West Palm Beach Asbestos Industries Most asbestos sites in Florida are located in the state's southern region. A large percentage of these sites were power generation facilities. Additionally, Florida has a large number of shipbuilding and marine repair facilities as well as a number of U.S. Naval bases. Other sources of asbestos exposure include chemical companies and public buildings. Interestingly, the sugar processing industry is also a source of asbestos exposure. U.S. Sugar Inc. was a Florida company where workers suffered from asbestos exposure. This is not unique to Florida; an Italian study in 1995 noted elevated rates of mesothelioma among that country's sugar industry employees as well. Asbestos Litigation Reform While “tort reform” has been perceived in many jurisdictions as shielding corporations from having to take responsibility, such laws in Florida are attempting to free up legal resources for those who are actually suffering from asbestos illness as opposed to those who may have a history of exposure but have not exhibited any symptoms. An amicus curiae brief filed in September 2007 pointed out that 90% of asbestos claimants in fact had no symptoms, and had been motivated to file cases based on “unreliable mass screenings.” Florida's Asbestos Reform Law gives priority to cases in which plaintiffs have actually been diagnosed; however, it does not prevent those exposed to asbestos from filing a claim with a mesothelioma lawyer in the event that they develop an asbestos-related disease later on. Other Florida Jobsites Where Asbestos Exposure Occurred If someone you know has ever worked at one of the Jobsites listed below, they may have been exposed to high levels of asbestos. Asbestos exposure at any one of these Jobsites could put them at risk for developing one of the following asbestos related diseases: malignant mesothelioma (a terminal asbestos cancer), lung cancer, asbestosis or pleural mesothelioma. Belle Glade Atlantic Sugar Association Belle Glade Sugar Mill Florida Sugar Corporation Glades Sugar House Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida Talisman Sugar Corp U.S. Sugar Company Bonnie Ammonia Inc. Chemical Inc IMC Corporation International Minerals & Chemical Company J.F. Pritchard & Company Bradenton Bradenton Steam Electric Station Florida National Bank Florida Power & Light Company Manatee Light and Fraction Company Manatee Memorial Hospital Phoenix Utility Company Tropicana Products, Inc Zoller Lumber Company Brewster Amalgamated Phosphate Company American Cyanamid Company Brooksville Central Power & Lime Inc Chemical Lime Company Florida Mining & Materials Corporation Southern Bell Telephone Company Cantonment Champion International Champion Paper Chemstrand Florida Pulp & Paper Company Saint Regis Paper Company St. Regis Paper Company Cape Canaveral Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Cape Canaveral Power Plant Complex 37 Florida Power & Light Kennedy Space Center Clewiston Clewiston Power Plant Clewiston, Ltd. Everglades Sugar Refinery Inc. Florida Cane Products Corp Southern Sugar Company Sugar Mill United States Sugar Corp Cocoa Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Cidco Park Cocoa Power Plant Orlando Utilities Patrick Air Force Base Rocket Insulation Company Crystal River Crystal River Nuclear Plant Crystal River Units Florida Power & Light Company Deland Deland Electric Light Power and Ice Company Southern Bell Telephone Company Turner Power Plant Us Air Operational Training Station Dunedin B. C. Skinner Machinery Citrus Concentrates Inc Clinton Foods Inc George L. Simonds Juice Industries, Inc East Tampa U.S. Phosphoric Products Corporation Enterprise Florida Power Corporation Turner Plant Foley Brooks-Scanlon Corporation Buckeye Cellulose Corporation Buckeye Florida Proctor and Gamble Paper Company, Mill Triangle Construction Company Fort Meade Armour Agricultural Chemical Armour Mine Us Steel V C Chemical Company Fort Myers Fort Myers Power Plant Gonzalez Chemstrand Company Combustion Engineering Inc Daniel Construction Company Gonzalez Corp Monsanto Chemical Company Monsanto Textiles Company Nylon Development Center Hialeah FEC Hialeah TT Holiday Inn Miami Mills Inc. Seaboard Airline Railroad Company T & H Insulation, Inc. Holiday Anclote Power Plant Hollywood Diplomat Hotel Hollywood Florida Water & Sewage Hollywood Memorial Hospital Memorial Hospital Homestead Everglades National Park Homestead Air Force Base Turkey Point Powerhouse U S Air Force Jay Amerada Hess Corporation Delta Engineering Corporation Exxon Plant Jay Oil Leesburg Asphalt Pavers, Inc Grass Fibre Pulp and Paper Company Leesburg Canning Company Leesburg Ice Company Minute Maid Corp Vacuum Food Corp