North Dakota Asbestos Exposure

Between 1920 and 1980 asbestos toxins and fibers were at their height of exposure. In North Dakota, thousands of asbestos-containing products and materials were used in shipyards, power plants, steel mills, iron mills, oil refineries, and construction site. More than 26,000 tons of asbestos shipments were received in the state of North Dakota. The highest noted asbestos exposure was in North Dakota’s Cass County, Burleigh County, Morton County and Grand Forks County.

Asbestos related deaths in North Dakota from 1999-2017 total up to 738. 55 during that time were Asbestosis Cancer Deaths and The North Carolina Mesothelioma Cancer Deaths totaled up to 138. The North Dakota Estimated-Asbestos Cancer Deaths totaled up to 552.

 

Statistics

  • North Dakota is 46th in the U.S. for malignant mesothelioma deaths
  • The mortality rate from Mesothelioma in North Dakota is 7.92 per million.
  • In North Dakota, 115 residents died from mesothelioma
  • Since 1979, 143 asbestos-related deaths occurred in North Dakota.

Settlements

  • $3.9 Million was awarded to an 83-year-old auto mechanic with mesothelioma.
  • $1.8 Million was awarded to an 83-year-old truck driver diagnosed with mesothelioma
  • $1.4 Million was awarded to an 83-year-old pipefitter who developed mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos on the job.
  • An $800,000 verdict was settled to an 81-year-old truck driver and sales worker with mesothelioma.
  • $500,000 was awarded to a 79-year-old to a Navy veteran and former welder diagnosed with mesothelioma.

North Dakota Asbestos Jobsites

1st National Bank Building – Hettinger Minnkota Power Cooperative Inc – Grand Forks
A N G Coal Gasification Plant – Beulah Minnkota Power Cooperative Inc. Power Plant Cont #4 Center
A.H. Bennett Company – Fargo Minnkota Power Cooperative Milton Young Station Center
Abm Missile Radar Sites Concrete Minnkota Power Corporation, Inc. – Grand Forks
ABM Missile Radar Sites Hampden Minnkote Power Cooperative – Harwood
ABM Missile Radar Sites Langdon Minnkote Power Cooperative Station Center
ABM Missile Radar Sites Nakoma Minot Air Force Base – Minot
Acadia Coal Co. Stellarton Minot Light & Telephone Company – Minot
Acadia Coal Company – Stellarton Minot Missile Site Minot
Adams Public School – Adams Minot Radar Station – Minot
Agway Grandin Minot State College – Minot
American Crystal Sugar Company – Drayton Minto Rolling Mill & Elevator Company – Minot
American Hoechst – Pluckemin Minuteman Missile Site – Grand Forks
American Linen Supply Fargo Minuteman Missile Site Langdon
American Oil Company – Mandan Minuteman Missile Site Minot
American Oil Refinery – Mandan Missile Site Grand Forks
Amoco Chemical Company – Mandan Missile Sites – Grand Forks
Amoco Oil Co. of Indiana Mandan Missile Sites – Langdon
Amoco Oil Company of Indiana – Mandan Ml Industrial Inc. Minot
Amoco Oil Company Refinery – Mandan Montana Dakota Power Company – Kincaid
Amoco Oil Refinery – Mandan Montana Dakota Utilities – Beulah
Amoco-American Oil Co. Standard Oil Co. Mandan Montana Dakota Utilities Beulah
Ang Coal Gasification Co. – Mercer County Montana Dakota Utilities Bismarck
Ang Coal Gasification Co. Great Plains Synfuels Project Beulah Montana Dakota Utilities Co. Kincaid
Ang Coal Gasification Co. Mercer County Montana Dakota Utilities Co. Kincaid, Plant Kincaid
Ang Coal Gasification Company – Beulah Montana Dakota Utilities Co. Mandan
Anti-Ballistic Missile Safeguard Facility – Grand Forks Montana Dakota Utilities Company – Kincaid
Archer Daniels Midland Co. – Walhalla Montana Dakota Utilities Mandan
Armour & Company – West Fargo Montana Dakota Utilities Public Service Co. Beulah
asin Electric & Power Cooperative W. J. Neal Velva Montana Dakota Utilities, Coyote Power Station Beulah
Bank Of Carrington – Carrington Montana Steam Electric Station Mandan
Basic Electric & Power Corp. Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. Beulah
Basin Electric & Power Cooperative Bismarck Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. Hesken Station Unit 2 Mandan
Basin Electric & Power Cooperative Stanton Montana-Dakota Utilities Company – Mandan
Basin Electric & Power Cooperative Unit #2 Stanton Mount Vernon Straw Board Company – Mount Vernon
Basin Electric & Power Cooperative W. J. Neal Voltaire New Jersey Zinc Co. – Gloucester
Basin Electric & Power Corp. Stanton No Pacific Railway Plant – Mandan
Basin Electric Power Cooperative – Beulah No. 1 Powerhouse Site Force Base
Basin Electric Power Cooperative – W. J. Neal – Velva North Dakota 45 Basin – Stanton
Baukol Noonan, Inc. – Noonan North Dakota Agricultural College – Fargo
Bethel Lutheran Home for The Aged – Williston North Dakota Milling Company – Grand Forks
Bismarck Civil Center – 6Th & Sweet Avenue – Bismarck North Dakota Penitentiary – Grove
Bismarck Civil Center – Bismarck North Dakota School For the Deaf – Devils Lake
Bob Clark Williston North Dakota School The Deaf
Boiler Plant State Hospital – Jamestown North Dakota State Hospital – Jamestown
Borden Company – Crafton North Dakota State Industrial School – Mandan
Bp Amoco North Dakota – Mandan North Dakota State Penitentiary – Bismarck
BP Amoco oil Refinery North Dakota State University – Fargo
Building Sprinkler Co., Inc. – Fargo North Dakota State University – Various Buildings – Fargo
Building Sprinkler Company, Inc. – Fargo North Dakota State University Dormitories Fargo
Burlington Northern Railroad-Shops – Minot Northern Pacific Railway Company – Jamestown
Case Tractor Facility Northern Pacific Railway Plant – Mandan
Cenex Harvest States Grandin Northern States Power Co. Fargo
Center Power Plant – Center Northern States Power Co. Grand Forks
Chs Inc. Grandin Northern States Power Co. Minot
City of Hastings Northern States Power Co. Voltaire
Clark Equipment Northern Sugar Corp – Drayton
Coal Creek Power Station – Underwood Northern Sugar Corp. – Drayton
Consumers Power Company – Minot Northwestern Public Service Co. Beulah
Cowan Building – Bismarck Oliver Farm Equipment Co. Fargo
Coyote Power Plant – Beulah Otter Tail Power Co. Devils Lake
Coyote Power Station – Beulah Otter Tail Power Co. Unit 2 Jamestown
Coyote Steam Plant, Unit 1 Beulah Otter Tail Power Company – Beulah
Crippled Childrens Hospital – Jamestown Par Missile Sites – Langdon
Crippled Children’s Hospital – Jamestown Par Missile Sites Nakoma
Crosby School District – Crosby Parsite – Alga
Crystal Sugar Plant – Grand Forks Pillsbury Co. – Fargo
Dakota Clinic – Fargo Pillsbury Company – Fargo
Dakota Hospital – Fargo R & O Contractors – Rolette
Dakota Public Service Power Plant – Bismarck R M Heskett Station – Mandan
Deaconess Hospital – Grafton R. M. Heskett Steam Electric Station Mandan
Dickinson Plumbing & Heating – Dickinson Red River Power Co. Grand Forks
Dickinson Roller Mill Company – Dickinson Red River Power Company – Grand Forks
Door #1 Powerhouse Site Robinson Insulation Co. Zonolite W.R. Grace – Minot
Elgin High School – Elgin Rogers Brothers Corp. Grand Forks
Excel Pork Division – Beardstown Ruttand Plumbing & Heating – Forman
F- M Insulation Fargo Safeguard Facilities – Langdon
Fargo Foundry & Steel Manufacturing – Fargo Safeguard Facilities Langdon
Federal Building – Fargo Sargent Manor – Forman
First National Bank – Bismarck School-Scared Heart – Grand Forks
First National Bank Building Hettinger Signal Oil Co. – Tioga
F-M Insulation – Fargo Signal Oil Plant – Tioga
Garrison Dam – Bismarck Simplot (Western Potato) – Grand Forks
Gasoline Plant – Tioga Singleton Sheetmetal – Devils Lake
Gopher United Power Sisters Of Mercy Hospital – Devils Lake
Gopher United Power – Stanton Power Plant – Stanton Sornsin Co. – Hazen
Grand Forks Afb (Missile Field) – Grand Forks Sornsin Company – Mandan
Grand Forks Air Force Base – Emerado Square Butte Electric Co. Center
Grand Forks Gas & Electric Company – Grand Forks Square Butte Electric Co. Operative Oliver
Grand Forks Missile Sites – Grand Forks St. Alexis Hospital – Bismarck
Grand Forks Powerhouse – Grand Forks St. Ann’s Gym
Great Northern Railroad – Minot St. Ann’s Gym – Rolette
Great Plains Gasification Plant – Beulah St. Johns Hospital – Fargo
Great Plains Gasification Plant ((Ang) – Beulah St. John’S Hospital – Fargo
Greenberg Roofing & Sheet Metal Co. – Minot Standard Oil Co. Mandan Refinery Mandan
Greenberg Roofing & Sheet Metal Company – Minot Standard Oil Company – Mandan
Hazen Hospital – Hazen Standard Oil Refinery – Mandan
Heating, & A-C, Inc. Standard Refinery – Mandan
Hesken Station Unit 2 Mandan Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex – Nakoma
Heskitt Station Power Plant – Mandan Stanton Power Plant – Stanton
High School – Crosby Stanton Powerhouse
Hughes Electric Co. Bismarck State Hospital – Jamestown
Hughes Electric Company – Beulah State Hospital for Insane – Jamestown
Hunt Oil – Tioga State Industrial School – Mandan
Husky Briquetting Inc. – Dickinson State Industrial School Mandan
Industrial Commission of N.D. – Grand Forks Steiger-Case Tractor Facility
Industrial Commission Of North Dakota – Grand Forks Strategic Air Command Air Base – Minot
Industrial Contractors – Bismarck Sub Station-West Fargo – West Fargo
J. F. Pritchard & Company – Tioga Sunset Home – Bowman
Jamestown Plumbing, Heating, & A/C, Inc. – Jamestown Three Tribes Stoneware – New Town
Jamestown State Hospital – Jamestown Truax- Traer Coal Co. Velva
Jamestown Yards Truax-Traer Coal Company – Kincaid
Johnson Fuel Co. Scranton Twining School – Fargo
Johnson Fuel Company – Scranton Twining School Airmans Dorm Fargo
Langdon Missile Sites – Langdon U. S. Reclamation Service Williston
Larimore Stock – Fargo Union Carbide Nuclear Co. – Tioga
Leeby Victor H Company – Fargo United Power Association
Leland Olds Generating Station – Stanton United Power Association Power Station Stanton
Lignite Combustion Engineering Company – Bismarck United Power Company – Crosby
Lummus – Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) – Mandan United States Reclamation Service – Williston
M & L Industrial Inc. – Minot University Of North Dakota – Grand Forks
M&L Industrial Inc. – Minot Valley City Brick Company – Valley City
MacArthur Warehouse Building Base Valley City Electric & Water Works – Valley City
Macarthur Warehouse Building Door # 1 Powerhouse Site Emerado Victor H. Leeby Company – Fargo
Macarthur Warehouse Building Door #1 Powerhouse Site Force Base W. J. Neal Co.
Magnet Cove Barium – Gascoyne W.S. Redamation Service – Williston
Manchester Biscuit Co. Fargo Walster North Dakota State University – Fargo
Mandan Oil – Mandan Walster, North Dakota State University Fargo
Mandan Powerhouse – Mandan Wellsboro Electric Co. Beulah Plant Beulah
Mechanical Insulation & Construction Co. – Tioga Wellsboro Electric Company, Beulah Plant – Beulah
Memorial Union North Dakota State University – Fargo West Acres – Fargo
Midwest Processing Corporation – Velva West Acres Mall Fargo
Milton R. Young Station – Center Western Potato
Milton R. Young Station – Minnkota Power Co-Op – Center Westland Oil Co. – Williston
Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative – Wahpeton Westland Oil Willisten
Minnesoto Northern Power Company – Kincaid Wm. J. Neal Power Station – Velva
Minnkota Power Cooperative – Center  

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