About Asbestos Exposure in Missouri
Thousands of workers in Missouri were exposed to asbestos at industrial facilities, construction sites, shipyards, power plants, and other workplaces throughout the 20th century. Many of these companies have been held liable for asbestos exposure in lawsuits and have established bankruptcy trusts to compensate victims.
If you or a loved one worked at any of the locations listed below and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma or another asbestos-related disease, you may be eligible for compensation.
Exposure Sites by City
- Browning Arms
- C C Dillon Co.
- Waste-Pak Co.
- Empire Electric
- Atlas Powder
- Solar Nitrogen Plant
- Hussey Construction
- Assoc Engineering Co.
- Fru-Con Construction
- Kremer Hicks Co.
- LV Fleiter Co & Cold Flo System
- Kingford Charcoal
- Certain Teed Pipe Co.
- Metal Form
- Pre-Fabricated Steel
- GWS Contractors
- Service Heel Co.
- Ellis Fithe Salvage Yard
- Table Rock Dam
- Brentwood Casting
- Consolidated Pattern
- Ahal Contracting Co., Inc.
- Car-Vil LTD Incorporated
- Coatings Unlimited, Inc.
- Vendo Co., Corp.
- Cape Central Airways, Inc.
- Cape Construction Co., Inc.
- Pure Ice Company
- Sam Tanksley Trucking
- Shelly Transportation
- Melson Hardware
- Acme Battery Manufacturing Co.
- County Supply, Inc.
- Mid-Continent Electric Co.
- Proctor & Gamble
- Ford Motor Company
- A & M Supply
- City Power
- Gebhardt Foods, Inc.
- Hathman McCarthy Construction Co.
- IBC Bakery
- Mid-States Lathing & Plastering Company
- University of Missouri
- University of Missouri Power Plant
- Site Oil Gas Station
- Decks Incorporated
- Hanging Drywall/Construction
- DeSoto Mining
- Heat and Frost Insulators
- Home Energy Savers
- Sara Lee
- Gorman & Sons, Inc.
- C&I Mechanical
- Landers Detail Shop
- Utah International Coal Mine
- Chrysler
- Crittenton Roofing
- Kemco Toll & Die
- R C Roofing
- Ram Air, Inc.
- Texaco, Inc.
- Arch Johnson Excavating & Paving Co.
- Festus Airport
- Festus Flying Service
- Rush Island Powerhouse
- Aetna Coatings, Inc.
- Midwest Drilling, Inc.
- D & L Construction
- Central Electric Power Cooperative
- Ford Motor Company
- Chaney Fence Corp.
- C T Wilson Contracting Co.
- Ford Motor Company
- McDonnell Douglas
- St. Louis Coca Cola Bottling Co.
- International Shoe
- MFA Service Station
- DRS Marlo Coil
- Kisco, Inc.
- Houston Feed Mill
- Kansas City Power & Light Power Plant
- American Aviation
- Amoco Oil
- Emerson Electric
- Atlas Powder
- Atlas Solar Nitrogen
- Don's Beisner Painting Co.
- Eagle-Picher Corp.
- Empire District Electric
- Joplin Cement
- Joplin Jr. College
- Joplin Schools
- Missouri Steel
- Oak Hill Hospital
- R.E. Smith Construction
- Solar Nitrogen
- Southwestern Bell
- St. John's Hospital
- Thurston Chemical
- American Bulk Transport
- American Trucking
- Bayer Chemical
- B-G Maintenance Management, Inc.
- Blue Springs Powerhouse
- Brenner Olds, Inc.
- Byers Truckline
- Clark Printing Company
- Commercial Waterproofing, Inc.
- Deco Silk Screen
- Enerco International, Inc.
- Evans Electrical Construction
- General Motors
- Group Maintenance, Inc.
- GST Steel
- Gunite Concrete & Construction Co.
- Hawthorne Power Plant
- Hayes Drilling, Inc.
- Hulwood Maintenance Service
- Iatan Power House
- Interstate Brands Corporation
- JDM Insulation Company
- Kansas City Power & Light Power Plant
- Kansas City Stock Yards Co.
- Massman Construction Co.
- Midland Motors, Inc.
- Midwest Mechanical Service
- Natkins Service Co.
- Nichols Industries, Inc.
- Pacer Oil Co.
- Palmentere Trucking
- Pleasant Hill Power Station
- Rand & Son Construction
- Smith Hoffman Transfer
- Standard Insulations, Inc.
- Trojan Boat Co.
- Union Freightway
- Union Pacific Railroad
- Western Electric
- Fram Line Manufacturing Co.
- Schmelig Construction Co., Inc.
- Empire Electric Power Plant
- Labadie Powerhouse
- Remington-DuPont
- J B Russell, Inc.
- Hercules Chemical
- Louisiana Plastics, Inc.
- Site Oil Co.
- A & E Electrician
- General Telephone Company
- Verizon
- L & S Plumbing Co, Inc.
- Meramec Powerhouse
- Everlast Fitness Manufacturing Corp.
- Orscheln Farm & Home, LLC
- Kansas City Power & Light Power Plant
- Bauman Construction
- New Madrid Powerhouse
- Noranda Aluminum
- Mitchell's Auto Salvage
- Sander's Auto Salvage
- Pipe Steel
- Shippers Car Line (Railroad)
- Miller Masonry
- VSM Abrasives Corp.
- Corporate Express
- Engineered Air Systems
- Rule Construction Co.
- Gross Air Heating & Cooling
- Pepsi-Cola Co.
- St. Louis Tuckpointing & Painting Co., Inc.
- International Shoe
- Thomas Industrial Coatings, Inc.
- Union Electric Powerhouse
- Earl Walker Mechanical Center
- Woodley Janitorial Service, Inc.
- Ozark Fisheries, Inc.
- Sradling Well Drilling
- Connors Engineering Co.
- Garney Construction
- Tyson Chicken Plant
- Noranda Aluminum Plant
- City of Springfield Municipal Power Plant
- James River Powerhouse
- M & M Pipeline Construction Co., Inc.
- South Power Plant
- Springfield Public Service
- Southwest Powerhouse
- Essen Hardware
- Sears & Roebuck
- Custom Craft Tile, Inc.
- Howell Corp.
- Midwest Piping Co, Inc.
- Subperial Asbestos
- Burnett Plumbing & Heating
- Abex
- Affiliate Hospital Products
- Alberici Construction, Inc.
- Alton Box Company
- American Can
- American Cone & Pretzel
- Anheuser-Busch Brewery
- Atlas Reserve Temporaries, Inc.
- B & B Auto
- Bannor-Iron
- Bazam Painting Co.
- Bodine Aluminum Foundry
- Boeing Company
- Branch Metal Processing Company
- Brooks Erection
- Brown Shoe Company, Inc.
- Bruce Burgess Printing
- Brunson Construction Co.
- Busch & Latta Painting Corp.
- Bush Selzer
- Cape Transit Corp
- Carter Carburetor
- Chrysler Plant
- CitiGroup, Inc.
- Coatings Application & Waterproofing
- Combustion Engineering
- Continental Boiler
- Continental Can
- Corrigan Company
- Corvette Plant
- Cross Janitory Service
- Deaconess Hospital
- Dennis Flores Painting
- E C Robinson Lumber Co.
- Easton Boot & Shoe Co.
- Edgewater Health Care, Inc.
- Emerson Electric
- Engine Rebuilding Plant
- Excellum Aluminum
- Five Star Temporaries, Inc.
- Flash Oil Corporation
- Fleischer Seeger Construction Co.
- Flexo Supply Co.
- Ford Motor Plant
- Furniture Brands International, Inc.
- General Installation Co.
- General Motors
- General Mills Bakery
- Grove Machine Company
- Guardian Environmental Systems, Inc.
- H W Kroeger Erection Company of Illinois, Inc.
- Hartman-Walsh Painting Co.
- Hoel-Steffen Construction
- Holland Furnace Repair
- Hussman Refrigeration
- Incarnet Word Hospital
- International Shoe
- Ironite Products Company
- Jacke Evans Manufacturing Co.
- Jefferson Barracks VA Hospital
- JP Manufacturing Co.
- JS Alberici Construction Co.
- Kirberg Roofing
- Kisco Shell Company
- Koplar Properties
- Krey Packing Plant
- L Keeley Paving & Construction Co.
- Labadie Power House
- Labor Ready
- Lilie Hoffman Cooling Towers, Inc.
- Lippert Brick Contracting Co., Inc.
- Lowell Bleachery Ink
- Lutheran Hospital
- Mallinckrodt Chemical
- Marlo Coil-HK Porter
- Marriott Airport
- McDonnell Douglas
- Meramec Powerhouse
- Millstone Construction
- Monsanto Company (Queeney Plant and Carondelet Plant)
- National By Products
- Nooter Corporation
- North County Technical School
- Pershing Management Co.
- Proctor & Gamble Plant
- Quaker Maid Oil Co.
- Ralston Purina Company
- Ryson Steel
- S M Wilson & Co.
- Sandstone
- Sands Wholesale Drug Co.
- Scuckman Ornamental Iron
- Scullin Steel
- SemiSteel Casting Co.
- Shell Oil Company
- Sigma Chemical
- Site Oil of Missouri
- Skrainka Construction Co.
- SLU
- Sneider Packing Co.
- Southside Recycling
- SSM St. Clare Health Center
- St. Alexius Hospital Corp.
- St. John's Mercy Hospital
- St. Louis Armature
- St. Louis City Public Schools
- St. Louis Fabricating
- St. Louis Screw & Bolt
- St. Louis Ship Building
- St. Louis Ship Yard
- St. Luke's Hospital
- Standard Machine & Manufacturing
- Stone Printing Company
- Subsurface Constructors
- Tarlton Corporation
- Turken Plumbing Co., Inc.
- Unidynamics
- Valier & Spies Flour Mill
- Wagner Electric
- Walsh Refractories
- Washington U. Powerhouse
- Westinghouse Electric
- Young Group Industrial
- Young Insulation
- Young Sales
- Seyer Industries, Inc.
- American Oil
- Amoco Oil
- Standard Oil Company
- Meramec Mine
- Associated Electric
- United Bricklaying Company
- Associated Building & Wrecking Co.
- Asorbort Cotton Company
- Wainwright Industrial
- Custom Fabricating
- General Motors
- Stovell Construction Co.
- Reliable Finishing Company, Inc.
What to Do If You Worked at These Sites
If you worked at any facility listed above and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or lung cancer, take these steps:
- Document your work history: Note dates, job duties, and specific locations where you worked
- Gather medical records: Obtain documentation of your diagnosis and treatment
- Consult a mesothelioma attorney: An experienced lawyer can identify all potential compensation sources
- File claims promptly: Statutes of limitations may limit your time to file
Compensation Options
Workers exposed to asbestos in Missouri may be eligible for compensation from multiple sources:
- Asbestos Trust Funds: Many bankrupt asbestos companies have established trusts with billions in assets
- Lawsuits: Claims against companies still in business that manufactured or used asbestos
- VA Benefits: For veterans exposed during military service
- Workers' Compensation: State programs for occupational exposure