Oklahoma Asbestos Areas

Oklahoma Asbestos Areas


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Oklahoma Asbestos Areas

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There are assertive industries that are associated with a top anticipation of chancy asbestos exposure; ability plants, oil refineries, actinic companies and cardboard mills are a part of them. The oil discoveries in Oklahoma led to the architecture of a aggregation of oil processing accessories through the twentieth centuries. Actinic companies assume to chase oil companies, and ability stations are bare in any accompaniment to accommodate electricity to homes and businesses.

High-Risk Asbestos Acknowledgment in Oklahoma

Oklahoma’s oil industry is the pride of the accompaniment but alive in it was, for abundant of the twentieth century, a abeyant could could could cause for asbestos exposure. Both the conduct companies and the refineries acclimated asbestos articles because asbestos is both a awful able anatomy of insulation and a blaze retardant as well. Asbestos was aswell acclimated both as insulation and as gasket actual in the accustomed gas abstraction and manual business.

The areas in and about Tulsa and Oklahoma City are abstemious with jobsites that accept a top anticipation for asbestos use and agent exposure. Abundant of this may accept occurred afore the backward 1980s if asbestos articles were taken off the market. However the a lot of baleful asbestos-caused ache has a continued cessation period, of up to twenty years or more.

Asbestos Diseases: Mesothelioma & Asbestosis

That ache is mesothelioma cancer, acquired by asbestos fibers that are inhaled and plan their way into the membranes lining the lungs, about the affection and in the belly cavity. Mesothelioma is still demography its toll, decades afterwards industries accomplished application asbestos products. The actual that is larboard is just as dangerous, conceivably added so as it ages and begins to deteriorate.

Asbestos can aswell could could could cause asbestosis, an adversity wherein the asbestos fibers blister the lungs assuredly and abate lung capacity. While it is not cancerous, asbestosis can be fatal. Malignant mesothelioma is lethal; patients who are diagnosed with it accept a adaptation aeon of twelve to eighteen months.

Asbestos Jobsites in Oklahoma

The jobsites listed beneath are locations in Oklahoma area asbestos was acclimated in structures and on accessories and area asbestos acknowledgment was acceptable for at atomic some employees. If you accept been active by any of these businesses you should altercate the implications of asbestos acknowledgment with your doctor, even if it occurred abounding years ago. If you accept been diagnosed with mesothelioma or an asbestos accompanying illness, acquaintance an Oklahoma mesothelioma advocate about advantage that may be owed to you by the asbestos companies and artefact manufacturers.

ALTUS AIR FORCE BASE ALTUS OK

INDUSTRIAL INSULATORS, INC. ALTUS OK

BEN FRANKLIN REFINING COMPANY ARDMORE OK

BARECO OIL COMPANY BARNSDALL OK

BARECO WAX CO BARNSDALL OK

PETROLITE CORP. BARNSDALL OK

PHILLIPS PETROLEUM COMPANY BARTLESVILLE OK

CABOT CORP. BEAVER OK

INTERNATIONAL MILLING CO. BLACKWELL OK

GRADY COUNTY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER CHICKASHA OK

OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO. - MUSTANG STATION COUNCIL OK

DEEP ROCK OIL CORP. CUSHING OK

MIDLAND COOPERATIVES, INC. CUSHING OK

SUNRAY REFINERY DUNCAN OK

BASS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ENID OK

CHAMPLIN OIL & REFINING CO. ENID OK

ENID ASBESTOS CO. ENID OK

WARREN PETROLEUM CORPORATION FORGAN OK

PANHANDLE EASTERN PIPE LINE COMPANY GUYMON OK

SWIFT & CO. GUYMON OK

OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO. HARRAH OK

WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CO - O G & E POWER PLANT HARRAH OK

EXXON HENNESSEY OK

HUMBLE OIL COMPANY - GASOLINE PLANT HENNESSEY OK

RODMAN GAS COMPANY HENNESSEY OK

EAGLE PICHER HENRYETTA OK

NATIONAL HELIUM PLANT KEYES OK

U. S. BUREAU OF MINES KEYES OK

OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO. KONAWA OK

FORT SILL ARMY BASE LAWTON OK

PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. LINDSAY OK

WARREN PETROLEUM CORPORATION MADILL OK

LONE STAR GAS COMPANY MARLOWE OK

HUDGENS CONSTRUCTION CO. MCALESTER OK

NAVAL AMMUNITION DEPOT MCALESTER OK

OKLAHOMA STATE PENITENTIARY MCALESTER OK

U. S. NAVAL AMMUNITION DEPOT MCALESTER OK

UNION IRON WORKS MCALESTER OK

B F GOODRICH TIRE COMPANY MIAMI OK

CALLERY CHEMICAL CO. MUSKOGEE OK

FEDERAL COURTHOUSE & POST OFFICE BL MUSKOGEE OK

FORT HOWARD PAPER MILL MUSKOGEE OK

MUSKOGEE HIGH SCHOOL MUSKOGEE OK

OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO. - RIVERBANK STATION MUSKOGEE OK

SWIFT & CO. MUSKOGEE OK

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA NORMAN OK

A. C. C. MACHINE TOOL CO. OKLAHOMA CITY OK

AUTODIN FACILITIES OKLAHOMA CITY OK

BELLE ISLE SCHOOL OKLAHOMA CITY OK

CAIN'S COFFEE CO. OKLAHOMA CITY OK

CONSOLIDATED INSULATION INC. OKLAHOMA CITY OK

FEDERAL BUILDING OKLAHOMA CITY OK

IMC DRILLING MUD, INC. OKLAHOMA CITY OK

INSULATIONS, INC. OKLAHOMA CITY OK

MARK BLODGETT INSULATION CO. OKLAHOMA CITY OK

MIDWEST INSULATION & MATERIAL CO. OKLAHOMA CITY OK

OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO. OKLAHOMA CITY OK

OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORP. OKLAHOMA CITY OK

ST. ANTHONY HOSPITAL OKLAHOMA CITY OK

STANDARD ASBESTOS MANUFACTURING & INSULATING CO. OKLAHOMA CITY OK

TINKER A F B OKLAHOMA CITY OK

TRANSWORLD DRILLING OKLAHOMA CITY OK

PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. OKMULGEE OK

OOLAGAH POWERHOUSE OOLAGAH OK

PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF OKLAHOMA OOLOGAH OK

CITIES SERVICE OIL CO. PONCA CITY OK

CONTINENTAL CARBON COMPANY PONCA CITY OK

L. A. KING, INC. PONCA CITY OK

OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY PONCA CITY OK

PONCA CITY UTILITY AUTHORITY PONCA CITY OK

CHEROKEE NITROGEN PLANT PRYOR OK

GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY PRYOR OK

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY STILLWATER OK

ALLIED ASPHALT REFINERY STROUD OK

ALLIED MATERIALS CORPORATION STROUD OK

OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY SULPHUR OK

CITIES SERVICE OIL CO. TALLANT OK

ACANDS, INC. TULSA OK

ARMSTRONG CORK COMPANY TULSA OK

DX-SUNRAY OIL REFINERY TULSA OK

EMPIRE ROOFING & INSUL. CO. TULSA OK

ENTERPRISE BUILDING TULSA OK

HILLCREST MEDICAL CENTER TULSA OK

INSULATION SERVICES, INC. TULSA OK

KANAWHA FITTINGS TULSA OK

L. A. KING, INC. TULSA OK

MALONEY CRAWFORD TANK CO TULSA OK

MCDONNELL DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT COMPANY TULSA OK

MW KELLOGG TULSA OK

NATIONAL BANK OF TULSA TULSA OK

OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO. TULSA OK

OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORP. TULSA OK

PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF OKLAHOMA - TULSA POWER STATION TULSA OK

STEVENS ASBESTOS PRODUCT COMPANY, INC. TULSA OK

STEVENS-KING CO., INC. TULSA OK

TEXACO OIL TULSA OK

UNITED INSULATION COMPANY TULSA OK

RUST ENGINEERING COMPANY VALLIANT OK

SOUTH EASTERN OKLAHOMA INDUST AUTHORITY VALLIANT OK

WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY VALLIANT OK

SKELLY OIL CO. VELMA OK

PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF OKLAHOMA WASHITA OK

SOUTHWESTERN BELL WEATHERFORD OK

TEXACO OIL WEST TULSA OK

SHELL OIL COMPANY - DILLARD PLANT WILSON OK

DIERKS FORESTS, INC. WRIGHT CITY OK

KERR-MCGEE CORPORATION WYNNEWOOD OK

Mesothelioma & Asbestosis Deaths in Oklahoma

In 2004 a abstraction was arise that analyzed the arise deaths from asbestosis and mesothelioma on a civic basis. The aeon of time that was advised continued from the end of 1979 to the year 2000. In Oklahoma the advisers begin that 104 deaths had been arise as due to asbestosis. The mesothelioma deaths in the accompaniment were arise as getting about amid 232 and 397. The ambit is due to the actuality that during the aeon beneath analysis lung blight may accept been arise as the could could could cause of afterlife if the primary affliction was pleural mesothelioma, blight of the lining of the lungs.

In 1999 the federal government began befitting authentic statistics on deaths due to mesothelioma. Over that aeon there were 141 such deaths in Oklahoma. The illnesses and fatalities from asbestos acknowledgment abide because it generally takes twenty years or added afterwards asbestos acknowledgment for the affection of mesothelioma to appear. Annual deaths from mesothelioma are accepted to abide to acceleration hardly for the next several years and again akin off.

Cancer Treatment in Oklahoma

Cancer Treatment Centers of America

Southwestern Regional Medical Center

10109 E. 79th Street

Tulsa, Oklahoma 74133

(918) 286-5000

Cancer Care Associates

Twelve locations throughout the state:

http://www.cancercareassociates.org/our-locations/



Oklahoma Asbestos Areas