Illinois Industrial, Chemical & Refinery Jobsites — Asbestos Exposure
Illinois's steel mills, chemical plants, oil refineries, and heavy manufacturing facilities were among the region's most intensive asbestos worksites. Process piping, reactors, boilers, and furnace linings required asbestos insulation and refractory throughout construction and decades of maintenance outages. Workers returning for seasonal and annual shutdowns accumulated exposures at multiple facilities across their careers. Click any site to read its full documented exposure history.
Map shows 36 documented Illinois industrial, chemical, and refinery exposure sites. Click any marker to visit the site's full report.
Illinois Industrial & Chemical Sites
Asbestos Exposure at Air Products Granite City Illinois
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. operates an industrial-gas and specialty-chemicals plant in Granite City, Illinois (Madison …
Asbestos Exposure at Kincaid Generating Station — Illinois
Public litigation records document more than 60 tradesmen — including insulators — who allegedly worked amid …
Asbestos Exposure at Equistar / USI Chemicals Tuscola Illinois
The chemical plant in Tuscola, Illinois (Douglas County, Central Illinois) has operated since 1971 under multiple …
Asbestos Exposure at Ethyl Petroleum Additives Sauget IL Plant
The Ethyl Petroleum Additives chemical plant in Sauget, Illinois (across the Mississippi River from St. Louis) …
Asbestos Exposure at Monsanto Krummrich Sauget Illinois
The Monsanto Krummrich chemical plant in Sauget, Illinois (across the Mississippi River from St. Louis) has operated since …
Asbestos Exposure at Shell Oil Roxana / Wood River Refinery — Illinois
The petroleum refinery in Roxana / Wood River, Illinois (Madison County, on the Mississippi River across from …
Asbestos Exposure at Western Electric — Hawthorne Works, Cicero (Phenolic End User): What Workers and Families Need to Know
Western Electric Company’s Hawthorne Works in …
Asbestos Exposure for Industrial Substation Electricians at steel, automotive, petrochemical, food-processing, and railroad Facilities in Illinois
steel, automotive, petrochemical, …
Overview
Former workers at Nesco Steel Barrel in Illinois may have been exposed to asbestos-containing materials that cause mesothelioma and other serious lung diseases — with …
⚠ Missouri Filing Deadline Warning: Your Window Is Open — But It Will Not Stay Open Forever
If you were diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or asbestos-related lung cancer …
Part V: Legal Options for Missouri and Illinois Workers
URGENT: Kentucky’s Filing Deadline Could Bar Your Claim
A mesothelioma diagnosis changes everything — and the clock …
If you just received a mesothelioma or asbestosis diagnosis and you worked at Granite City Steel — or lived with someone who did — the clock is already running. Illinois gives you …
Urgent Filing Deadline Warning: If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma or another asbestos-related illness, the clock is already running. Illinois’s …
You May Have Very Little Time to Act
If you or a loved one has just been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease after working at the BP Amoco …
If you’ve just been diagnosed with mesothelioma or another asbestos-related disease, one number matters more than anything else right now: two years. That’s how long Illinois …
If you just received a mesothelioma diagnosis, the clock is already running. Illinois law gives two years from the date of diagnosis to file an asbestos personal injury claim under …
Illinois Residents — Time-Sensitive Legal Alert
If You Worked at This Facility
Workers at the Mobil Oil Joliet Refinery in Joliet, Illinois may have been exposed to …
URGENT FILING NOTICE: If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with an asbestos-related illness after working at Nalco Chemical Company, act now. Illinois law provides a two-year …
You just got a diagnosis. Mesothelioma. Lung cancer. Asbestosis. The doctor used words like “aggressive” and “latency period,” and now you’re …
If you or a family member worked at the Royster-Clark nitrogen fertilizer plant in East Dubuque, Illinois, you may have been exposed to asbestos-containing materials — and a …
⚠️ Missouri Filing Deadline — This Cannot Wait
If you or a loved one may have been exposed to asbestos-containing materials at U.S. Steel South Works, you have two years from …
You Just Got a Diagnosis. Here’s What Happens Next.
A mesothelioma diagnosis changes everything—and the legal clock starts immediately. Under Missouri law, you have two years …
Urgent Filing Deadline Alert:
Former Workers and Their Families Face Real Health Risks
The Huntsman Chemical Corporation facility in Peru, Illinois may have exposed hundreds of …
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Illinois gives asbestos disease victims two years from diagnosis to file under 735 ILCS 5/13-202. Industrial and chemical plant workers frequently develop mesothelioma 20–50 years after exposure — the clock starts on diagnosis. Contact a Illinois asbestos attorney immediately.
Mesothelioma Attorney for Illinois Asbestos Claims
If you were diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease after being exposed to asbestos — or you lost a loved one to one — you and your family may have a legal claim and civil claims. An experienced asbestos attorney can evaluate the case — at no cost to you.
If you were diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, a filing deadline may already be running. You may have a legal claim now — and claims can often be pursued even if the company is out of business.
Surviving spouses and children may pursue a wrongful-death claim and asbestos-trust recovery on a loved one's behalf — a separate deadline that can run from the date of passing.
- Free case review — no obligation to hire
- No attorney fee unless a financial recovery is made
- Personal-injury and wrongful-death claims both evaluated
- Trust-fund claims and civil lawsuits pursued simultaneously
- Filing deadlines may limit the time you have — the sooner the better