Kentucky Industrial, Chemical & Refinery Jobsites — Asbestos Exposure
Kentucky'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 87 industrial, chemical and refinery sites
- General Electric — Appliance Park Louisville KY Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Johnson & Johnson — Louisville KY Plant Asbestos Exposure
- American Electric Power (AEP) / Appalachian Power — Kentucky Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Ashland Petroleum / Ashland Oil — Kentucky Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Consolidated Natural Gas / Columbia Gas — Kentucky Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Duke Energy / Duke Power — Kentucky Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Eli Lilly and Company — Kentucky Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Illinois Central Railroad (ICRR / ICG / CN) — Kentucky Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Interlake Steel Corporation — Kentucky Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Marathon Oil / Marathon Petroleum — Kentucky Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Stauffer Chemical Company — Kentucky Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) — Kentucky Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel & Armco Steel — Kentucky Plant Asbestos Exposure
- Henderson City Power Reed-Green Station Kentucky — Henderson
- OMU Elmer Smith Station Owensboro Kentucky — Owensboro
- Ebonite International — Hopkinsville Bowling Ball Plant (Phenolic End User) Hopkinsville Kentucky — Hopkinsville
- General Electric Appliance Park — Louisville (Phenolic End User) Louisville Kentucky — Louisville
- Square D Company — Lexington Switchgear Plant (Phenolic End User) Lexington Kentucky — Lexington
- Westinghouse Electric / ABB — Louisville Transformer Service Center Louisville Kentucky — Louisville
- Industrial Substation Electricians appliance, chemical-plant, automotive, and bourbon-distillery Kentucky
- LG&E / Kentucky Utilities / Duke Energy Kentucky Substation Electricians Kentucky
- Asbestos Exposure at Ashland Oil Catlettsburg Refinery — Catlettsburg
- Henderson Station — Sebree, KY: Asbestos Exposure and Mesothelioma Claims — Sebree
- Paradise Fossil Plant, Drakesboro, Kentucky — Drakesboro
- PPG Industries Barbourville, Kentucky: Asbestos Exposure and Mesothelioma Risk – Act Now: Kentucky’s One-Year Filing Deadline — Barbourville
- Alcan Aluminum Sebree Smelter Sebree Kentucky — Sebree
- American Standard Louisville Plumbing Fixtures Louisville Kentucky — Louisville
- Armco Steel AK Steel Ashland Works Ashland Kentucky — Ashland
- Century Aluminum Hawesville Smelter Hawesville Kentucky — Hawesville
- DuPont Rubbertown Louisville Chemical Plant Louisville Kentucky — Louisville
- Ford Motor Company Kentucky — Louisville
- Fruit Of The Loom Bowling Green Manufacturing Bowling Green Kentucky — Bowling Green
- General Cable Industries Newport Plant Newport Kentucky — Newport
- Green Station - Big Rivers Electric Sebree Kentucky — Sebree
- Kentucky Utilities Coleman Station Campbellsville Kentucky — Campbellsville
- Owensboro Municipal Utilities Green Station Owensboro Kentucky — Owensboro
- Peabody Coal Company Western Kentucky — Madisonville
- Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant DOE Paducah Kentucky — Paducah
- Dale Power Station - East Kentucky — Ford
- DuPont Louisville Works Louisville Kentucky — Louisville
- General Electric Appliance Park Louisville Kentucky — Louisville
- Ghent Generating Station Ghent Kentucky — Ghent
- Ghent Generating Station — Ghent
- Island Creek Coal Letcher County Mines Whitesburg Kentucky — Whitesburg
- Philip Morris Louisville Manufacturing Plant Louisville Kentucky — Louisville
- Rohm And Haas Louisville Chemical Operations Louisville Kentucky — Louisville
- Henderson Municipal Power Urquhart Station Henderson Kentucky — Henderson
- Bethlehem Steel Lackawanna Coke Ovens Ashland, Kentucky — Ashland
- Kentucky Power Big Sandy Louisa Kentucky — Louisa
- E.W. Brown Generating Station | Burgin, KY | Kentucky — Burgin
- AEP Big Sandy Power Plant Louisa, Kentucky — Louisa
- Genco Holdings Ghent Generating Station Ghent, Kentucky — Ghent
- Jefferson County Public Schools Demolitions Louisville — Kentucky — Louisville
- Kentucky Utilities Dan River Plant Danville Kentucky — Danville
- LG&E Trimble County Station Bedford, Kentucky — Bedford
- Peabody Coal Preparation Plants Western Kentucky
- University of Kentucky — Lexington
- Brown & Williamson Plant Renovations Louisville, Kentucky — Louisville
- Anaconda Aluminum Sebree, Kentucky — Sebree
- Coleman Station | Hawesville, KY — Hawesville
- Consolidation Coal (CONSOL) Eastern Kentucky
- East Bend Generating Station | Rabbit Hash, KY | Duke Energy Kentucky — Rabbit Hash
- East Kentucky Power Cooper Plant Baxter Kentucky — Baxter
- Eastern Kentucky
- Ghent | KY — Ghent
- J K Smith Power Station — Winchester
- Kentucky Utilities Dan River Danville Kentucky — Danville
- Lexington-Fayette School Buildings Lexington, Kentucky — Lexington
- Louisville School Buildings Demolition Louisville, Kentucky — Louisville
- Marshall Energy Facility | Calvert — Calvert City
- North American Stainless Ghent Steel — Ghent
- Nucor Steel Brandenburg Plant — Brandenburg
- Liberty Station Power Plant — Liberty
- PPS Power Plant No 1 — Paducah
- Robert Reid Power Plant — Sebree
- Shawnee Fossil Plant | West Paducah, KY | Tennessee — West Paducah
- Spurlock Power Station | Maysville, KY | East Kentucky — Maysville
- TVA Paradise Steam Plant Drakesboro, Kentucky — Drakesboro
- Cane Run Station | Louisville — Louisville
- Dale Power Station | Ford, KY | East Kentucky — Ford
- Bluegrass Generating Station | LaGrange — La Grange
- Green River Generating Station | Central City, KY | Kentucky — Central City
- Honeywell Metropolis Works (NRC Uranium) Metropolis, Illinois Kentucky
- LG&E MILL Creek Power Plant Louisville, Kentucky — Louisville
- Paradise Fossil Plant | Drakesboro, KY | Tennessee — Drakesboro
- Riverside Generating (KY) Power Station — Catlettsburg
- Wilson Station | Centertown, KY — Centertown
Map shows 87 documented Kentucky industrial, chemical, and refinery exposure sites. Click any marker to visit the site's full report.
Kentucky Industrial & Chemical Sites
General Electric — Appliance Park in Louisville KY
Plaintiffs allegedly, in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation, were exposed to asbestos …
Johnson & Johnson — Louisville KY Surgical / Medical Device Plant
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they …
American Electric Power (AEP) / Appalachian Power — Plants in Kentucky
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they …
Ashland Petroleum / Ashland Oil — Plants in Kentucky
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to …
Consolidated Natural Gas / Columbia Gas — Plants in Kentucky
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed …
Duke Energy / Duke Power — Plants in Kentucky
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to asbestos …
Eli Lilly and Company — Plants in Kentucky
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to asbestos while …
Illinois Central Railroad (ICRR / ICG / CN) — Plants in Kentucky
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were …
Interlake Steel Corporation — Plants in Kentucky
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to asbestos …
Marathon Oil / Marathon Petroleum — Plants in Kentucky
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to …
Stauffer Chemical Company — Plants in Kentucky
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to asbestos …
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) — Plants in Kentucky
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were exposed to …
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel & Armco Steel — Plants in Kentucky
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were …
Asbestos Exposure at Henderson Reed-Green Station — Kentucky
The Reed-Green Station in Henderson, Kentucky (Henderson County, on the Ohio River) is a coal-fired electric generating …
Asbestos Exposure at Elmer Smith Station — Owensboro, Kentucky
The Elmer Smith Station in Owensboro, Kentucky (Daviess County, on the Ohio River) operated as a major coal-fired …
Asbestos Exposure at Ebonite International — Hopkinsville Bowling Ball Plant (Phenolic End User): What Workers and Families Need to Know
The Ebonite Division (later Ebonite …
Asbestos Exposure at General Electric Appliance Park — Louisville (Phenolic End User): What Workers and Families Need to Know
General Electric’s Appliance Park in Louisville, …
Asbestos Exposure at Square D Company — Lexington Switchgear Plant (Phenolic End User): What Workers and Families Need to Know
The Square D Company Lexington, Kentucky plant …
Asbestos Exposure at Westinghouse Electric / ABB — Louisville Transformer Service Center: What Workers and Families Need to Know
Westinghouse Electric Corporation allegedly …
Asbestos Exposure for Industrial Substation Electricians at appliance, chemical-plant, automotive, and bourbon-distillery Facilities in Kentucky
appliance, chemical-plant, …
Asbestos Exposure for LG&E / Kentucky Utilities / Duke Energy Kentucky Substation Electricians and Lineworkers in Kentucky
LG&E / Kentucky Utilities / Duke Energy Kentucky …
A diagnosis of mesothelioma or another asbestos-related disease is devastating. If you or a loved one worked at the Ashland Oil Catlettsburg Refinery in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, and …
URGENT DEADLINE WARNING FOR KENTUCKY ASBESTOS CLAIMS:
Kentucky has one of the shortest statutes of limitations in the nation for asbestos-related personal injury and wrongful death …
A diagnosis of mesothelioma or another asbestos-related disease is devastating, especially when you suspect your illness stems from your working life. The Paradise Fossil Plant, a …
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Mesothelioma Attorney for Kentucky Asbestos Claims
If you were diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease after being exposed to asbestos — or you lost a loved one to one — you and your family may have a legal claim. An experienced asbestos attorney can evaluate the case — at no cost to you.
If you were diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, a filing deadline may already be running. You may have a legal claim now — and claims can often be pursued even if the company is out of business.
Surviving spouses and children may pursue a wrongful-death claim and asbestos-trust recovery on a loved one's behalf — a separate deadline that can run from the date of passing.
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