Job Types: Insulators

Asbestos Exposure at Snyder Tank: What Workers and Their Families Need to Know Former Snyder Tank and Buffalo Tank Corporation Employees May Have Been Exposed to Asbestos For more than eight decades, the facility known today as Snyder Tank, and originally as Buffalo Tank Corporation on Lincoln Street in Lackawanna, has been part of the […]

North Tonawanda, New York – Asbestos and Mesothelioma Exposure National Grinding Wheel Co., Inc., formerly located and headquartered in North Tonawanda, New York, manufactured industrial grinding wheels used in heavy industrial applications. The company was founded in Buffalo, New York, in 1904 and relocated to North Tonawanda in 1929, where the company constructed its original […]

Asbestos Exposure at Bethlehem Steel Company – Staten Island Founded in 1895 and located on the north shore of Staten Island, Bethlehem Steel Company originally constructed wooden vessels under the name of The Burlee Drydock Company. In 1916 the yard began to construct steel ships. The shipyard was purchased and renamed by Bethlehem Steel Company […]

A.P. Green Industries initially opened in the 1910s and produced warship boilers used in World War I and World War II.  Even though A.P. Green Industries knew of the dangers of asbestos they used this dangerous mineral in its products through 1973.  Many of their refractory products remain in aging machinery today and continue to […]

Orange and Rockland Utilities began as Rockland Light & Power Co. in Nyack, NY in 1899. In 1958 they merged with Orange and Rockland Electric Company and became known as Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., with their subsidiary, Rockland Electric Company, they are wholly known as Consolidated Edison, Inc. (since 1999). Today they provide electric […]

New York Shipbuilding Corporation Asbestos Exposure New York Shipbuilding Corporation was established in 1899 by Henry Morse. New York Shipbuilding Corporation, also called “New York Ship,” was supposed to be in New York City. However, due to a failed real estate deal, New York Shipbuilding was based in Camden, New Jersey. It spanned 160 acres […]

Coastal Dry Dock and Repair Company, New York The Coastal Dry Dock and Repair Company was the primary tenant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Brooklyn Navy Yard was an industrial construction site for commercial vessels. Coastal Dry Dock and Repair Company had between 600 to 1000 workers at any given time, reliant on how […]