Louisiana Asbestos-Related Deaths from 1999-2017

875
Mesothelioma Deaths
219
Asbestosis Deaths
1,094
Total Deaths

Asbestos Exposure in Louisiana

Asbestos in Oil Refineries

Louisiana is home to many oil refineries because of its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico. Asbestos is known for its heat resistant properties which made it a common insulation material so refineries could protect the highly flammable oil. Oil refineries often used asbestos materials to insulate pipes and tanks. The pervasive use of asbestos in these facilities means workers were likely exposed to asbestos and could be at risk for developing asbestos-related diseases, such as mesothelioma, asbestosis, and lung cancer.

Shipyards and Asbestos Exposure

Louisiana’s coastline means it is also home to several shipyards where asbestos was frequently used. Shipbuilders and shipyard workers may have been exposed to asbestos while building and repairing commercial and naval ships. Asbestos-containing materials were used to insulate pipes, boilers, and other high heat machinery on ships. When workers had to repair or replace this equipment, asbestos fibers would become airborne and inhaled by those nearby. Inhaling asbestos fibers is extremely hazardous and can lead to the development of deadly diseases. Workers should monitor their health for respiratory illnesses.

Hurricane Katrina

First responders in Louisiana were exposed to asbestos during the rescue and recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina hit the state hard in 2005. Floodwaters and high winds from the hurricane destroyed buildings that contained asbestos materials sending asbestos fibers into the air. Many other individuals were exposed to asbestos during the cleanup and rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Some older buildings had asbestos in the insulation, ceiling and floor tiles, and shingles, but many workers and volunteers did not take the proper safety precautions when cleaning up debris.

Vermiculite and Asbestos

Oil refineries, building debris, shipyards, chemical plants, and paper mills are not the only sources of asbestos exposure for Louisiana residents. The state was also home to the W.R. Grace Company from the 1960s to 1980s. The facility received several tons of asbestos-containing vermiculite from Libby, Montana. It then processed the asbestos-contaminated vermiculite to make attic insulation and other industrial products. Workers and residents near the facility were exposed to toxic asbestos fibers. W.R. Grace ended operations at the facility in the 1990s, but low levels of asbestos were detected at the facility and in the soil around the building years later.

Partial list of work sites in Louisiana with known asbestos exposure
  • Agrico Chemical Plant in Faustina
  • Air Liquide Chemical Plant
  • Air Products Chemical Plant in Geismar
  • Air Products Chemical Plant in New Orleans
  • Akzo Noble Salt Plant
  • Albania Sugar Refinery
  • Albemarle-Ethyl Chemical Plant
  • Algiers Naval Station
  • Allen Millwork Firedoor Plant
  • Allied Signal-Honeywell Chemical Plant
  • Alma Plantation Sugar Refinery
  • American Cyanamid Chemical Plant
  • American Legion Hospital
  • American Marine Shipyard
  • American Standard Chemical Plant
  • American-Amstar-Domino Sugar Refinery
  • Amoco Oil Refinery
  • Ampacet Color Concentrate Fire Retardant Plant in deRidder
  • Arizona Chemical Plant
  • Arkla Natural Gas Plant
  • AT&T Building
  • Atlas Oil Refinery
  • Atofina-Totalfina-Cosmar Polystyrene Chemical Plant
  • Avondale Shipyard
  • Babcock & Wilcox Boiler Factory
  • Basell-Montell-Himont-Hercules Polyolefins Plastics Chemical Plant
  • BASF/Wyandotte Chemical Plant
  • Basis Petroleum-Philbro Oil Refinery
  • Baton Rouge Coal And Towing Company
  • Baton Rouge General Hospital
  • Bay Petroleum Oil Refinery
  • Beker Phosphate Chemical Plant
  • Bentley Motel Building
  • Bestwall-Georgia Pacific Plaster Plant
  • Big Cajun #1 & #2 Steam Plant
  • Big Cajun #3 Steam Plant
  • Billeaud Sugar Refinery
  • Bird & Son Roofing Plant
  • Bogalusa Paper Mill
  • Boise Cascade Plywood Mill
  • Boise Cascade Paper Mill
  • Boland Marine Shipyard
  • Bossier Wire & Cable Corporation
  • Bourg Dry Dock & Shipyard
  • Brown Container Paper Mill
  • B.F. Industries Chemical Plant
  • Cabot Corporation Carbon Black Plant
  • Caddo Parrish Courthouse
  • Caire & Gaugnaird Sugar Refinery
  • Cajun Sugar Cooperative
  • Calcasieu Paper Mill
  • Calkraft Paper Mill
  • Calumet Lubricants Chemical Plant
  • Capital Concrete Products Shop
  • Celotex Insulation and asbestos products Plant
  • Central Power & Light Steam Plant
  • Central State Hospital
  • CertainTeed asbestos products plant
  • Charity Hospital
  • Chevron Oil Refinery
  • Chevron Phillips Chemical Plant
  • Ciba‐Geigy Chemical Plant
  • Cinclare Sugar Refinery
  • Cit‐Con-Citgo Chemical Plant
  • Citgo Oil Refinery
  • Cities Service Oil Refinery
  • City Of Houma buildings
  • City Of Opelousas buildings
  • Clearview Shopping Center
  • Cleco Steam Plant
  • Colonial Sugar Refinery
  • Columbian Carbon Black Chemical Plant
  • Columbus Southern Magnesium Plant
  • Commercial Solvents Chemical Plant
  • Condea Vista–Conoco Chemical Plant in Lake Charles
  • Consolidated Chemical Plant
  • Continental Can Metals plant
  • Coughlin Steam Plant
  • Crosby Chemical Plant
  • Crown Zellerbach Paper Mill
  • Cuban American Nickel Plant
  • D&D Oil Drilling Company
  • Delta Shipyard
  • Doc Baldwin Steam Plant
  • Dolet HillsSteam Plant
  • Domino Sugar Refinery
  • Dow Chemical Plant
  • DSM Copolymer Specialty Rubber Plant
  • Dugas & Leblanc Sugar Refinery
  • Dupont Chemical Plant
  • East Louisiana State Mental Hospital
  • East Thibodaux Middle School
  • Enjay Plastics Plant
  • Enron/Dow Chemical Plant
  • Entergy Center Building
  • Equitable Shipyard
  • Ethyl Chemical Plant
  • Evan Hall Sugar Refinery
  • Exxon Oil Refinery
  • ExxonMobil-Esso Chemical Plant, ExxonMobil-Humble Oil Refinery
  • ExxonMobil Plastics Plant
  • ExxonMobil-Paxon Polymer-Allied-Honeywell-WRGrace Plastics Plant
  • Firestone Tire & Rubber Plant
  • First Nitrogen Plant
  • Folgers Coffee Plant
  • Formosa Plastics Chemical Plant
  • Foster Grant Chemical Plant
  • Freeport Sulphur Chemical Plant
  • Garden Island Bay Plant
  • Gatx Steam Plant
  • Gatx Storage Tunnel Warehouse
  • Gatx Tank Terminal
  • Gaylord- Crown Zellerbach Paper Mill
  • General Motors Plant
  • Georgia Gulf Plant
  • Georgia Pacific Plywood Plant
  • Georgia Pacific Pulp & Paper Mill
  • Gillis Plant
  • Glenwood Sugar Refinery
  • Godchaux Sugar Refinery
  • Good Hope Oil Refinery
  • Goodman Oil Refinery
  • Grand Isle Sulphur Plant
  • GSU/Louisiana Station Steam Plant
  • Gulf Alliance Chemical Plant
  • Gulf Coast Aluminum Plant
  • Gulf Oil Refinery
  • Gulf States Fabricating Shop
  • Gulf States Steam Plant
  • Gulf States Utilities Nelson Steam Plant
  • Gulf States-Pittsburgh Plate Glass Chemical Plant
  • Halter Marine Shipyard
  • Hanson Disease Center
  • Harvey Shipyard
  • Hepinstall Steel Fabricating Shop
  • Hercules Chemical Plant
  • Highland Hospital
  • Hillyer Deutsch Edwards Furniture Manufacturer
  • Holsum Bakery
  • Hooker Chemical Plant
  • Houma Light & Water Steam Plant
  • Hunt Shipyard
  • Iberia Sugar Refinery
  • IMC-Global-Gulf Agrico-Mosaic Phosphate Chemical Plant in Faustina
  • Imperial Industries Chemical Plant
  • International Minerals Plant
  • International Paper Mill
  • J.B. Beard Manufacturing Plant
  • J.C. Higgins Shipyard
  • Jackson Brewery
  • Jeanerette Sugar Refinery
  • Jewish Community Center Building
  • Johns Manville Manufacturing Plant
  • Jung Hotel Building
  • Kaiser Chemical Plant
  • Kansas City Southern Railroad Facility
  • Koch Nitrogen Chemical Plant
  • L & N Railroad Yard
  • Lafayette Steam Plant
  • Lake Charles Memorial Hospital
  • Lapeyrouse Auto Parts
  • Laroche Chemical Plant
  • Lion Oil Refinery
  • Little Gypsy Steam Plant
  • Lone Star Cement Plant
  • Lou Ana Cooking Oil Plant
  • Louisiana Army Ordnance Plant
  • Louisiana Dock Shipyard
  • Louisiana Energy & Power Steam Plant
  • Louisiana Pacific Saw Mill
  • Louisiana State Office Buildings
  • Louisiana State University Buildings
  • Louisiana Sugar Refinery
  • Louisiana Technical University buildings
  • LP&L Steam Plant
  • Lula Sugar Refinery
  • Lykes Brothers Steamship Wharf Shipyard
  • Lyondell-ARCO- Olin Mathieson Alkali
  • Chemical Plant in Lake Charles
  • M A Patout Sugar Refinery
  • Macs Amoco Service Station
  • Madison-Olin Mathieson Chemical Plant
  • Main Iron Works Shipyard
  • Marathon Oil Refinery
  • Market Street Steam Plant
  • Martin Marietta Aircraft Plant
  • McDermott Marine Shipyard
  • Melamine Chemical Plant
  • Michoud Steam Plant
  • Minden Steam Plant
  • Mobil Oil Refinery
  • Monochem Chemical Plant
  • Monroe Steam Plant
  • Monsanto Chemical Plant
  • Morton Chemical Plant
  • Motiva-Star Enterprise-Texaco Oil Refinery
  • Murphy-Ingram Oil Refinery
  • Nalco Chemical Plant
  • Natchitoches Steam Plant
  • Nelson Industrial Steam Plant
  • New Orleans Public Service Steam Plant
  • Nine Mile Point Steam Plant
  • Nopsi Market Street Plant
  • Northeast Louisiana State University
  • Occidental Chemical Plant
  • Olin Mathieson Chemical Plant
  • Orion Oil Refinery
  • Ormet Chemical Plant
  • Oronite Chemical Plant
  • Owens‐Illinois Glass Factory
  • Oxy Chemical Plant
  • Pan American Oil Refinery
  • Patout Lumber Mill
  • Patout Sugar Refinery
  • Patterson Steam Plant
  • Pennzoil Oil Refinery
  • Petro United Chemical Plant
  • Petrochem/Butadiene Chemical Plant
  • Pineville Kraft Paper Mill
  • Pittsburgh Plate Glass Chemical Plant
  • Placid Oil Refinery
  • Port Of Embarkation Shipyard
  • Port Of New Orleans Shipyard
  • Proctor & Gamble Plant
  • Quality Shipyard
  • Raceland Raw Sugar Refinery
  • Rapides Regional Hospital
  • Rayco Shipbuilders And Repair Yard
  • Reed Lumber Mill
  • Riegel Paper Mill
  • Riverwood Paper Mill
  • Rodemacher Steam Plant
  • Rollins Environmental Service
  • Roy Dupuis Steam Plant
  • Roy Nelson Steam Plant
  • Roy O. Martin Saw Mill
  • Rubicon Chemical Plant
  • Ruston Steam Plant
  • Schumpert Medical Center
  • Shell Chemical Plant
  • Shell Gas Plant
  • Shell Oil Refinery
  • Shell Pipeline
  • Shintech-Borden-Oxchem-Firestone Chemical Plant
  • Shumpert Hospital
  • Smurfit‐Stone Container-Continental Can Paper Mill
  • Solvay Chemical Plant
  • South Coast Inc. Ashland Plantation
  • Southdown Sugar Refinery
  • Southern Kraft Paper Mill
  • Southern Shipyard
  • Southwestern Electric Steam Plant
  • St. Mary Sugar Refinery
  • St. Charles Hotel
  • St. Francis Hospital
  • St. James Sugar Refinery
  • Standard Coffee Mill
  • Standard Oil Chemical Plant
  • Standard Oil Refinery
  • Standard Supply
  • State Capitol Building
  • State Insurance Building
  • State Times Building
  • Stauffer Chemical Plant
  • Sterling Sugar Refinery
  • Sterlington Ammonia Plant
  • Sterlington Carbon Black Plant
  • Sterlington Chemical Plant
  • Sterlington Steam Plant
  • Sun Oil-Sunoco Oil Refinery
  • Supreme Sugar Refinery
  • Swepco Office Building
  • Swepco Steam Plant
  • Temple Inland-Gaylord Bag-Graphic Packaging-Olin Kraft-Brown-Manville Forest Products-Riverwood Paper Mill
  • Tenneco Oil Refinery
  • Texaco Pipeline
  • Tide Water Gas Plant
  • Todd Johnson Dry Dock Shipyard
  • Todd Shipyard
  • Transcontinental Gas Pipeline
  • Triad Chemical Plant
  • Tulane University
  • Union Carbide-Dow Chemical Plant in Taft
  • Union Carbide Chemical Plant
  • Universal Oil Products Refinery
  • Urania Lumber Co. Creosote Plant
  • Valentine Pulp & Paper Mill
  • Valero-Orion-Trans Continental-Transamerica-Good Hope Oil Refinery
  • Vida Sugar Refinery
  • Vista Chemical Plant
  • Vulcan Materials Chlorine & Derivatives Chemical Plant
  • W.R. Grace Chemical Plant in Lake Charles
  • Waterman Steamship Wharf
  • West Monroe Paper Mill
  • Westlake Petrochemical Plant
  • Westlake Polymer Plant
  • Westvaco Chemical Plant
  • Weyerhaeuser Paper Mill
  • Willamette Paper Mill
  • Willis Knighton Hospital
  • Willow Glen Steam Plant
  • Wilson Meat Packing Co.
  • Witco Chemical Plant
  • Women’s Hospital
  • Woodward Wight Shipyard and Supply

Statute of Limitations to File Mesothelioma Claim in Louisiana

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What is mesothelioma?

Mesothelioma is a deadly and rare form of malignant cancer that is caused by asbestos exposure. The most common forms of mesothelioma are: pleural and peritoneal. Pleural mesothelioma is a cancer that affects the lining of the lungs and peritoneal mesothelioma is a cancer that affects the lining of the abdominal cavity.

Victims with pleural mesothelioma may have respiratory symptoms, such as coughing, shortness of breath, chest pain, and fatigue. Victims with peritoneal mesothelioma may have abdominal swelling, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss.

The latency period for mesothelioma is very long. The average latency period is about 30 years, but can be shorter than 15 years or longer than 40 years. This means individuals with mesothelioma may take decades to present symptoms from the time they were exposed to asbestos.

What is asbestosis?

Asbestosis is a chronic lung disease caused by asbestos exposure. When asbestos is inhaled the fibers irritate and scar the lining of the lungs, making it difficult to breathe. The lungs become stiff and cannot expand and contract normally. Symptoms of asbestosis are shortness of breath, chest pain, and a dry, persistent cough. Like mesothelioma, the latency period for asbestosis is very long. Symptoms may not present for 10 to 40 years after asbestos exposure.

Military Asbestos Exposure

It is extremely important to know that our attorneys do not sue the military. We seek accountability from the asbestos companies that sold dangerous asbestos products to the military.

Members of all branches of the military may have been exposed to asbestos before it became more restricted in the 1970s. The U.S. military used asbestos products in many areas because of its low cost, durability, and heat resistant properties. The common use of these asbestos products put many U.S. veterans at risk of developing asbestos related diseases, such as mesothelioma, asbestosis, and lung cancer. Below is a list of the military branches and common asbestos exposure sites:

  • Navy – shipyards, boiler rooms, submarines
  • Army – barracks, shipyards, construction
  • Marine Corps – armored vehicles, barracks, ships, aircraft
  • Coast Guard – inside ships, ships, boiler rooms
  • Air Force- bases, airplanes, jets, aircraft maintenance