If you or a loved one suffered injury, including mesothelioma or cancer, after being exposed to asbestos while serving in the Navy, you may be entitled to recover compensation from a Navy asbestos exposure lawsuit case or settlement claim.
A team of products liability injury lawyers and class action attorneys is investigating military asbestos lawsuit cases and settlement claims of Navy veterans who suffered injury, including mesothelioma and cancer, after being exposed to asbestos while serving in the Navy.
Thousands of U.S. Navy veterans may have been exposed to asbestos while serving in the Navy, aboard Navy ships, in Navy shipyards, on Navy bases, in Navy buildings, and in Navy vehicles. Indeed, the Navy is believed to have used more asbestos than other branch of the military.
Navy Asbestos Exposure Lawsuit Cases: Navy Mesothelioma & Asbestos Cancer Injury Claims
Navy asbestos exposure lawsuit claims potentially being investigated include claims of navy veterans who suffered asbestos-related injury after being exposed to asbestos while serving in the Navy, including:
- Mesothelioma
- Lung cancer
- Other asbestos cancers
- Asbestosis
- Other asbestos-related disease
Navy Asbestos Exposure Injury Claims
From 1930 to 1980, the U.S. Navy used various asbestos-containing products on Navy vessels and in shipyards, including adhesives, bedding compounds, block insulation, boilers, boiler insulation, brakes, cables, capacitors and meters, cement, deck covering materials, diaelectric paper and relays, duct wrapping, electrical wire coating, fireboxes and liners, filters, floor tiles, gaskets, instruments, packing materials, paneling, paint, pipe insulation, pumps, spray on insulation, sealants, soundproofing material, textiles, wallboard and valves, among others.
Navy personnel who installed, maintained, repaired or otherwise worked with or near asbestos containing equipment, products and materials may have been exposed to asbestos during their service in the Navy, including those in the following occupations, among others:
- Aviation boatswain’s mate
- Aviation machinist’s mate
- Below-deck sailor
- Below-deck engineer
- Boiler technician
- Boatswain’s mate
- Electrician’s mate
- Engineman
- Gas turbine system technician
- Gunner’s mate
- Hull maintenance worker
- Machinist mate
- Machinery repair worker
- Metalsmith
- Navy AC installer
- Navy boilerman
- Navy insulator
- Navy engine operator
- Navy firefighter
- Navy lagger
- Navy damage controlman
- Navy machinist
- Navy mechanic
- Navy medical staff
- Navy painter
- Navy panel installer
- Navy pipefitter
- Navy plumber
- Navy tile setter
- Seabee
- Shipbuilder
- Shipyard worker
- Shipfitter
- Navy storekeeper
- Submarine worker
- Navy steelworker
- Navy technician
- Navy welder
- Navy weapons specialist
- Water tender
- Other Navy personnel
- Other types of navy asbestos exposure
Navy Vessel Asbestos Exposure
The Navy has used asbestos products in various Navy vessels, such as:
- Aircraft carriers
- Amphibious warships
- Ammunition freighters
- Auxillary ships
- Battlerships
- Cruisers
- Cutters
- Destroyers
- Destroyer escorts
- Escort carriers
- Explosives freighters
- Frigate
- Hospital vessels
- Landing craft
- Liberty ships
- Merchant marine ships
- Minesweepers
- Oilers and tankers
- Patrol boats
- Submarines
- Troop carriers
- Other Navy vessels or ships
Asbestos Exposure On Navy Ships
Significant amounts of asbestos was used on Navy ships, including in:
- Propulsion rooms
- Deck floorings
- Gaskets
- Pipe laggings
- Seals
- Damage control rooms
- Pump rooms
- Engine rooms
- Berthing
- Boiler room
- Bulkheads
- Insulation
- Pumps
- Valves
- Powder & shot magazine
- Ward rooms
- Sick bays
- Turrets
- Bathing spaces
- Galleys
- Battery directors
- Mess decks
- Reefers
- Living quarters
- Pilot’s houses
- Captain’s sea cabins
- Admiral’s cabins
- Other Navy ship asbestos exposure
Navy Shipyard Asbestos Exposure
Historically, many Navy ships were built using asbestos-containing materials, potentially exposing shipyard workers to asbestos while they built, repaired and retired Navy ships at various current or former Navy Shipyards, including, for example:
- Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co., Mobile
- Albina Shipyard
- American Bridge Co., Pittsburgh
- American Bridge Shipyard, Orange
- American Shipbuilding
- AMFELS, Brownsville
- Associated Shipbuilders Inc., Seattle
- Astoria Voyage Repair Station
- Atlantic Dry Dock
- Avondale Industries
- Baltimore Marine Industries
- Barbas Cut Docks
- Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath
- Bender Shipbuilding
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.
- Bethlehem Shipyard, San Francisco
- Bethlehem Steel Co., Hingham
- Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy
- Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Island
- Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Terminal Island
- Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore
- Bloodworth Bond Shipyard
- Boats of Freeport
- Bollinger Shipyards
- Boston Navy Yard (a/k/a Boston Naval Shipyard)
- Braswell Services Group
- Brooklyn Navy Shipyard (New York Naval Shipyard)
- Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston
- Caddell Drydock and Repair
- Carolina Shipping Co.
- Cascade General
- Charleston Naval Shipyard (Charleston Navy Yard)
- Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Seneca
- Colonna’s Shipyard
- Commercial Iron & Steel Shipyard – Portland
- Conrad Industries
- Conrad Industries
- Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange
- Consolidated Steel Shipyards
- Cramp Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia
- Curtis Bay Coast Guard Yard
- Defoe Shipbuilding Co.
- Delta Shipbuilding Co., New Orleans
- Detyens Shipyard
- Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh
- Duwamish Shipyard
- Dyer Shipyard
- Electric Boat
- Ellicott International
- Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Port Newark
- Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny
- Federal Shipbuilding, Newark
- Floating Marine Ways Shipyard – Portland
- Fore River Shipyard
- Foss Tug and Launch Co.
- Galveston Docks
- General Ship Corp.
- GMD Shipyard
- Groton Electric Boat Co.
- Gulf Marine Repair Corp.
- Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw
- Gunderson/FMC Shipyard – Portland
- Hendry Corp.
- Houston Shipyards
- Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
- Ingalls Shipbuilding
- Ingalls Shipbuilding
- Ingalls Shipyard
- J. A. Jones Construction Co., Brunswick
- J. A. Jones Construction Co., Panama City
- Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Co., Jeffersonville
- Kaiser Shipyard
- Kaiser Shipyard, Richmond
- Kaiser Vancouver Shipyard
- Kane Shipbuilding
- Key Highway Shipyard
- Key Highway Shipyard
- Lake Union Drydock
- Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton
- Little Creek Amphibious Base
- Lockheed Shipyard
- Long Beach Naval Shipyard (a/k/a Terminal Island)
- Lyon Shipyard
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo
- Marinship Corp., Sausalito
- Masco Shipyard
- Mayport Naval Station
- Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., Evansville
- Moore Drydock
- NASSCO
- Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek
- Naval Station Everett
- Naval Station Great Lakes, North Chicago
- Naval Station Ingleside
- Naval Station Pascagoula
- Naval Submarine Base New London (Groton Naval Base)
- Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach
- New England Shipbuilding Co., South Portland
- New York Shipbuilding, Camden
- Newport Naval Yard (Naval Station Newport)
- Newport News Shipyard
- Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth (aka Norfolk Navy Yard)
- NORSHIPCO
- North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington
- Northwest Marine Ironworks
- Offshore Shipbuilding Inc.
- Orange Shipbuilding Co.
- Oregon Shipbuilding Co., Portland
- Oregon Shipyard (Kaiser)
- Penn Shipbuilding
- Pennsylvania Shipyard, Beaumont
- Pennsylvania Shipyard, Beaumont
- Pensacola Naval Air Station
- Permanente Metals Corp., No. 1 Yard, Richmond
- Permanente Metals Corp., No. 2 Yard, Richmond
- Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (aka Navy Yard)
- Phillyship
- Port Adams Shipyard
- Portland Ship Repair Yard
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery
- Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (aka Bremerton Navy Yard, Puget Sound Navy Yard)
- Richmond Shipyard
- Richmond Shipyards
- Rough & Ready Island Ship Repair
- San Diego Naval Shipyard and Air Station
- San Francisco Drydock
- Seward Marine Industrial Center
- Seward Ships Drydock
- South Portland Shipyard
- Southeastern Shipbuilding Corp., Savannah
- Southwest Marine Shipyard, Long Beach
- Southwest Marine Shipyard, San Diego
- St. John’s River Shipbuilding Co., Jacksonville
- Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific, Bangor
- Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester
- Swan Island Shipyard
- Tacoma Drydock
- Tampa Bay Shipbuilding
- Terminal Island Naval Operating Base
- Terminal Island Naval Shipyard (a/k/a Long Beach Naval Shipyard)
- Todd Alameda Naval Shipyard
- Todd Shipyard, Brooklyn
- Todd Shipyard, Hoboken
- Todd Shipyard, Houston
- Todd Shipyard, Los Angeles
- Todd Shipyard, Oakland
- Todd Shipyard, San Francisco
- Todd Shipyard, San Pedro
- Todd Shipyard, Seattle
- Todd Shipyard, Tacoma
- Tongue Point Naval Shipyard
- Trinity Marine Group
- Trinity Marine Group
- USX Shipyard
- Vancouver Shipyard
- Voyage Repair Station Port Angeles
- Washington Navy Yard
- Western Pipe & Steel Co. of California, San Pedro
- Western Shipyard
- Willamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland
- Zidell’s Shipyard, Portland
- Other Navy Shipywards
If you or a loved one were injured after being exposed to asbestos while serving in the Navy, you may be entitled to compensation from a Navy asbestos exposure lawsuit case or settlement claim. Contact an injury lawyer to request a free case review
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