Nebraska Asbestos Areas

Nebraska Asbestos Areas


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Nebraska Asbestos Areas

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Nebraska has a mix of industries a part of its agronomical areas that were in all likelihood application asbestos articles at some time in the twentieth century. Ability plants are consistently candidates for asbestos articles because they accomplish calefaction in adjustment to aftermath beef to drive turbines. Many of the aboriginal (and current) assets for electrical ability were created by bounded cooperatives. Those plants were advised to serve called areas and about alone were beef plants rather than hydro-electric. Any such bulb complete above-mentioned to 1980 or so apparently acclimated asbestos to insulate pipes and boilers and as gasket actual for aqueduct connections.

Chemical and fertilizer plants dot the mural in Nebraska; these accessories accept processing accessories that apparently had asbestos blanket for insulation or articles absolute asbestos that went into the processing line. There are aswell several oil refineries in the state: these plants accept massive brim systems and advance calefaction to clarify awkward oil into petroleum products. Many refineries were congenital thirty years ago or added and are affirmed to accept asbestos apparatus unless there has been a absolute accomplishment to apple-pie them up.

Omaha has been a shipment point for articles advancing out of the slaughterhouses there for added than a century. For abundant of that time those articles were alien out via railroad; old abuse yards and accessories are all doubtable for asbestos products. Finally, the accompaniment is home to a brace of Air Force bases that apparently accept their own ability plants and brim systems; those too may be sources of acknowledgment to asbestos.

Asbestos Jobsites in Nebraska

Below are some locations in Nebraska that are accepted to be sites for abeyant asbestos exposure, either today or in accomplished years. If you were active at any one of them it's account a altercation with your doctor about the possibilities of asbestos-related bloom problems.

ALLIANCE MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC SYSTEM ALLIANCE NE

CITY LIGHT PLANT AUBURN NE

AUBURN MUNICIPAL POWER PLANT AUBURN NE

COMINCO PRODUCTS CO. BEATRICE NE

NATURAL GAS PIPE LINE CO. OF AMERICA BEATRICE NE

PHILLIPS PETROLEUM FERTILIZER PLANT BEATRICE NE

NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT BELLEVUE NE

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE BELLEVUE NE

KANSAS-NEBRASKA NATURAL GAS CO., INC. BIG SPRINGS NE

FORT CALHOUN POWER STATION BLAIR NE

OMAHA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT BLAIR NE

COOPER NUCLEARPOWER PLANT BROWNSVILLE NE

CHADRON STATE COLLEGE CHADRON NE

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY COLUMBUS NE

CRETE MILLS CRETE NE

DAVID CITY LIGHT & WATER DAVID CITY NE

ALLIED CHEMICAL CORP. EAST OMAHA NE

T J HIGH SCHOOL EAST OMAHA NE

FEL-TEX EAST OMAHA NE

LAURITZEN GRAIN & LBR CO FORT CALHOUN NE

OMAHA PUBLIC POWER DIST FORT CALHOUN NE

LAURITZEN GRAIN & LUMBER CO. FORT CALHOUN NE

CITY OF FREMONT DEPARTMENT OF UTILITIES FREMONT NE

FEL-TEX FREMONT NE

GRAND ISLAND POWER PLANT GRAND ISLAND NE

CONSUMERS PUB. POWER DIV. - SHELDON STATION HALLAM NE

HALLAM NUCLEAR POWER FACILITY HALLAM NE

NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT HALLAM NE

HASTINGS MUNICIPAL POWER PLANT HASTINGS NE

MARY LANNING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL HASTINGS NE

CAMINCO PRODS CO - GRANULATING PLANT HOAG NE

WM. F. ANDERSON HOLDREGE NE

GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL KEARNEY NE

KEARNEY STATE COLLEGE KEARNEY NE

ARTHUR L. HILBERG PLUMBING KEARNEY NE

ALLIED CHEMICAL & DYE CORP. LA PLATTE NE

CANADAY STEAM PLANT LEXINGTON NE

CENTRAL NEB. PUBLIC POWER CANADAY PLANT LEXINGTON NE

LINCOLN AIR FORCE BASE LINCOLN NE

LINCOLN GENERAL HOSPITAL LINCOLN NE

PETERSON PARKING GARAGE LINCOLN NE

RAY MARTIN COMPANY LINCOLN NE

VAUGHN INSULATION COMPANY LINCOLN NE

HALLAM NUCLEAR POWER FAC. MALLAM NE

WESTERN ELECTRIC MALLARD NE

FARWELL WALLACE JOINT VENTURES MILLARD NE

NEBRASKACITY POWERHOUSE NEBRASKA CITY NE

BEST LAUNDRY CLEANERS NORTH PLATTE NE

NORTH PLATTE PLUMBING & HEATING NORTH PLATTE NE

NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT OGALLALA NE

VAUGHN INSULATION COMPANY OGALLALA NE

OMAHA POWERHOUSE NORTH OMAHA NE

WATER TREATMENT PLANT OMAHA NE

ALGER WAREHOUSE OMAHA NE

ALLIED MILLS - LIVENGOOD OMAHA NE

BISHOP CLARKSON HOSP OMAHA NE

BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE RAILROAD OMAHA NE

FIRST METHODIST CHURCH OMAHA NE

GENERAL ELECTRIC OMAHA NE

KELLEY PLANT OMAHA NE

MASTER ELECTRONICS OMAHA NE

NORTH OMAHA POWER STATION OMAHA NE

NORTHERN NATURAL GAS CO PLT OMAHA NE

OMAHA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT OMAHA NE

QUAKER OATS COMPANY OMAHA NE

ST. JOSEPHS HOSPITAL - NURSES RESIDENCE OMAHA NE

SWIFT & COMPANY OMAHA NE

U. S. POST OFFICE & GARAGE OMAHA NE

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO OMAHA NE

WILSON & COMPANY OMAHA NE

ALLIED MILLS OMAHA NE

BISHOP CLARKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OMAHA NE

CONSTRUCTION SPECIALTIES CO. OMAHA NE

MIDWEST ASBESTOS CO. OMAHA NE

NORTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY OMAHA NE

SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. OMAHA NE

ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OMAHA NE

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD OMAHA NE

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA OMAHA NE

U. S. POST OFFICE OMAHA NE

VAUGHN INSULATION COMPANY OMAHA NE

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL OMAHA NE

WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY OMAHA NE

WESTERN MINERAL PRODUCTS OMAHA NE

RED CLOUD SCHOOLS RED CLOUD NE

HIRAM SCOTT COLLEGE SCOTTSBLUFF NE

SCOTTSBLUFF PACKING CO., INC. - RENDERING PLANT SCOTTSBLUFF NE

SWIFT & COMPANY SCOTTSBLUFF NE

HIRAM SCOTT COLLEGE SCOTTSBLUFF NE

SCOTTSBLUFF PACKING COMPANY SCOTTSBLUFF NE

SIOUX ARMY DEPOT SIDNEY NE

ST. ANTHONYS CHURCH STEINAUER NE

CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY TECUMSEH NE

FARWELL WALLACE JOINT VENTURES - LCL WECO NE

CUMMING COUNTY PUBLIC POWER WEST POINT NE

Asbestos Accompanying Deaths in Nebraska

A abstraction fabricated accessible in 2004 looked at civic trends in asbestos accompanying deaths. The two baleful forms of asbestos-related ache are asbestosis and mesothelioma cancer. Asbestosis is not a anatomy of blight and is not consistently a baleful affliction. The aforementioned cannot be said for mesothelioma, which is a baleful anatomy of blight that usually attacks the lining of the lung breadth or the belly cavity.

The abstraction looked at recorded deaths from asbestosis and mesothelioma from 1979 through 2000. They aswell looked at demographic and automated patterns, and fabricated the acceptance that some allocation of the deaths appear to be acquired by lung blight may accept been due to pleural mesothelioma. For that acumen they address mesothelioma deaths in a ambit rather than with a specific number.

In Nebraska over that aeon there were 65 deaths attributed to asbestosis and amid 129 and 210 deaths from mesothelioma. Because it generally takes twenty years or added afterwards asbestos acknowledgment for affection of mesothelioma to show, the Center for Ache Control expects mesothelioma to be a agency for years to come. Currently about 3,000 humans in the United States die from this ache annually.

In 1999 the federal government began befitting specific annal of mesothelioma deaths. From 1999 through 2004 there were 98 mesothelioma deaths in Nebraska.

Cancer Analysis in Nebraska

The Civic Blight Institute has called forty one blight analysis accessories about the country and appointed them as absolute analysis and analysis centers. These accessories will be accommodating in accommodating analysis on assorted forms of cancer, as able-bodied as analytic trials for new medications and blight analysis methods. One of them is in Omaha:

Eppley Blight Center

University of Nebraska Medical Center

600 South 42nd Street

Omaha, Nebraska 68198-6805

Tel: (402) 559-4238

Fax: (402) 559-4652

http://www.unmc.edu/cancercenter/

There are several added blight affliction accessories in Nebraska; the accompaniment Department of Bloom and Human Services has its own Absolute Blight Control Program that can absolute you to blight affliction accessories about the state:

Nebraska Absolute Blight Control Program

Nebraska Bloom and Human Services

301 Centennial Mall South PO Box 95026

Lincoln, NE 68509

Phone: (402) 471-4411

Fax: (402) 471-6446

Email: NebraskaCARES@dhhs.ne.gov



Nebraska Asbestos Areas