Agriculture is Kansas' primary industry, and agricultural workers are not known suffer from asbestos disease in any significant numbers. During the last twenty years of the 20th Century, deaths from asbestos in the state of Kansas numbered 360 out of a general population averaging 2.5 million. Interestingly, two-thirds of these died due to
mesothelioma rather than asbestosis.
Kansas Cities where Asbestos Exposure Occurred
Provided below is a list of cities in the state of Kansas where asbestos jobsites are known to have been located. If you worked at any of these companies and/or jobsites in Kansas 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.
Asbestos Sites
According to the Environmental Working Group, the three most serious asbestos exposure sites:
- Farmland Industries
- Frontier Oil
- Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Company
The first of these is a chemical plant, the primary product of which is ammonia. Here, the most likely form of asbestos was crocidolite, or “blue” asbestos, which is highly resistant to caustic chemicals. In 2004, the plant underwent a major asbestos abatement program under the supervision of the state Department of Health.
Statistics
As is the case in the rest of the nation, most asbestos disease cases were found in the more urbanized regions of the state, particularly the Topeka area. Most of these were patients suffering from mesothelioma, which is rarely diagnosed at
mesothelioma clinics in its earliest stages when it is actually treatable. Most cases of non-malignant asbestosis (a far more common disease) were found in Butler, Leavenworth and Riley Counties.
Natural Asbestos Sources
Kansas is far from the geologically more active Rockies or complex geology of the Appalachian Range. However, there are three locations in the eastern part of the state in which natural deposits of serpentine, a source of chrysotile asbestos, can be found. Two of these sites are located approximately 35 miles northwest of Topeka near a group of small farming towns located between U.S. Highways 77 and 75. The third is near the community of Parsons in southeastern Kansas, approximately 20 miles north of the Oklahoma state line. If you believe you have been negligently exposed to asbestos you should contact a
mesothelioma lawyer.
Other Kansas 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 cancer), asbestos related lung cancer,
asbestosis or
pleural mesothelioma.
Abilene
- Kansas Power & Light Company
- Riverside Light
- Town of Abilene
Atchison
- Blair Milling Company
- L F M Manufacturing Company
- La Mo Refractory Supply
- Midwest Grain Products, Incorporated
- Midwest Solvents Company, Inc
- St. Benedict's College
Augusta
- Derby Refinery
- E.B. Badger Company
- Frick-Reid Supply Company
- L. M. Marcum Company
- Mobil Oil Refinery
- Municipal Light Plant
- Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
- White Eagle Refrigeration Company
Bushton
- Bushton Hydrocarbon Plant
- Enron Gas Processing
- Hydrocarbon Transportation
- Northern Gas Products
- Northern Natural Gas Company
- Oneok Inc.
Concordia
- Cloride Ceramics Company
- Concordia Electric Light Company
- Kansas Power Company
De Soto
- Hercules Power Company, Inc.
- Sunflower Ammunitions Plant
- Sunflower Army Ordinance Works
Emporia
- Armour & Company
- Emporia Railway Lt Company
- Emporia State Teachers College
- Iowa Beef Processors, Inc
- Kansas Electric Utilities Company
- Modine Radiator
- Retarded Childrens Center
- Sauder Tank Company Inc
Fort Riley
- Fort Riley
- Irwin Army Hospital
- United States Army Hospital
Garden City
- Garden City Company
- Garden City Municipal Utilities/Municipal Plant
- Huxtable-Hammond Company, Inc.
- Sunflower Electric Corporation
- Sunflower Power Station
- Wheatland Electric Cooperative
Great Bend
- Aquila, Inc.
- National Bank Building
- Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America
- Saint Rose's Hospital and School For Nurses
- Western Light & Power Company
- Western Light and Telephone Company
Hays
- Central Kansas Power Company
- Kendall Plumbing Company
- Midwest Energy Inc
- Sunflower Electric Cooperative, Inc.
- Travenol Laboratories Inc
Independence
- Adamson Manufacturing Company
- Ajax Portland Cement Company
- Atchison Revolving Door Company
- Petroleum Products Company
- Western States Port. Cement Company
Iola
- American Service Company
- Fine Arts Center
- Iola Water Plant
- Lehigh Portland Cement
- Material Engineering Company
- Municipal Light Plant
La Cygne
- Kansas City Power and Light
- Kansas Gas & Electric Company
- KP&L Powerhouse
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