Vermont Asbestos Exposure

Between 1920 and 1980 asbestos toxins and fibers were at their height of exposure. In Vermont, tons of asbestos shipments were received. A lot of asbestos exposure occurred in shipyards, power plants, steel mills, iron mills, oil refineries, and construction sites in Bennington County, Windham County, Rutland County, Windsor County, and Lamoille County.

Asbestos related deaths in Vermont from 1999-2017 total up to 632. 58 during that time were Asbestosis Cancer Deaths and 115 were Mesothelioma Cancer Deaths. Estimated-Asbestos Cancer Deaths totaled up to 460 in Vermont during 1999-2017.

Statistics

  • Vermont is 47th in the U.S. for malignant mesothelioma deaths
  • The mortality rate from Mesothelioma in Vermont is 14.55 per million.
  • In Vermont, 77 residents died from mesothelioma.
  • Since 1979, 106 asbestos-related deaths occurred in Vermont.
  • There are 22 asbestos sites in Vermont.

Settlements

  • $1.4 Million was settled to an 82-year-old Navy veteran and shipyard worker who was exposed to asbestos on the job.
  • $1.1 Million was awarded to a 63-year-old Army veteran and insulator diagnosed with mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos.
  • $1.1 Million was settled to a 63-year-old Army veteran and former insulator with malignant mesothelioma.
  • A $700,000 verdict was settled to an 81-year-old Navy veteran and sheet metal worker exposed to asbestos.
  • $700,000 was awarded to an 85-year-old machinist diagnosed with mesothelioma

Vermont Asbestos Jobsites

A.S. Dewey Company – Zuechee Jones Brothers Company – Barre
Adams Paper Company – Wells River Koffee Teachout – St. Albans
Air Route Surveillance Radar – St. Albans Kraft Foods Division – Troy
American Woolen Company, Incorporated – Wincoski Lejtieoman Allen Bldg #5 – Winnoski
Bennington Pottery Company – Bennington Mack Moulding Company – Arlington
Black Cat Textiles – Bennington Manufacturers Quarring Company – Barre
Blodgett Supply Company, Inc. – Burlington Manufacturers Quarring Company – Websterville
Burlington Light & Power Company – Winooski Mary Fletcher Hospital Boiler Room – Burlington
Burlington Light Heat & Power Company – Burlington Middlebury College Heating Plant – Middlebury
Burlington Water Dept. – Burlington Monroe Sholesale, Inc – W. Rutland
Canney Plue Inc – Rutland Montpelier & Barre Light & Power Company – Montpelier
Central Vermont Medical Center – Berlin Moore Business Forms – Rutland
Central Vermont Public Service Corp. – Georgia National Life Insurance Co – Montpelier
Central Vermont Railway, Incorporated – St. Albans New England Dairies – Enosburg
Central Vermont Railway, Incorporated – White River Junction New England Tale Company – Pittsfield
Central Vermont Railways – St. Albans North Country Union High School – Newport
Champlain Mills – Wincoski North Pownal Manufacturing Company – North Pownal
Champlain Valley Union High School. – Hinesburg Oak-Mitsui – Waterbury
Consolidated Light & Power Company – Montpelier Olcott Falls Company – Wilder
Consolidated Lighting Company – Montpelier Owens Illinois Plywood Company – Troy
Cooperative Design – Bennington Plywood Factory Boiler Plant – Morrisville
Corry Deavitt Frost Electric Company – Montpelier Queen City Cotton Company – Burlington
Dial Exchange Building – Rutland Rice Brothers – Poultney
E. T. Fairbanks & Company – St. Jonnsbury Robert A Keasbey Co – Springvale
Eagle Square Manufacturing Company – South Shaftsbury Roddis Plywood Corp – North Troy
Eastern Talc Company – East Granville Rutland Fire Clay Co. – Rutland
Electric Light & Power Company – St. Albans Rutland Hospital – Rutland
Fairbanks Morse Company – St. Johnsbury Sheffield Farms Company, Incorporated – Vergennes
Fall Mountain Mill – Bellows Falls Sheffield Farms, Slawsons-Decker Company – Vergennes
Fitzdale Paper Company – Fitzdale Shepard Corporation – White River Junction
Fort Ethan Allen Bldg Nbr 5 & 9 – Winnoski St. Albans Cooperative Creamery Company – St. Albans
Gage House Studios – Bellow Falls St. Johnsbury Trucking Terminal – Burlington
General Electric Manufacturing Plant – Burlington Suburban Propane – Brattleboro
Georgia Pacific Corporation – Gilman Twin State Gas & Electric Company – Brattleboro
Gilman Paper Company – Gilman University Of Vermont Medical Bldg – Burlington
GMC Infirmary – Rutland Vermont Academy – Saxton River
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company – Windsor Vermont Electric Power Co. Inc. – Rutland
Granite Quarry – Barre Vermont Light Aggregate – Castleton
Green Mountain Paper – Bellows Falls Vermont Marble Company – Proctor
Green Mountain Power Corporation – Colchester Vermont Marble Company – Rutland
Green Mountain Power Corporation – Montpelier Vermont State Hospital – Waterbury
H E Bradford Company – Bennington Vermont State Prison – Windsor
Hiawaitha School – Burlington Vermont Yankee Power Plant – Vernon
Highgate Falls Power Station – Franklin Vermont, Dept. Of Admin. Purchasing Division – Waterbury
Howe Scale Company – Rutland Wallingford Manufacturing Company – Wallingford
Ibm – Essex Junction White Mountain Paper – Bellows Falls
Ibm Cd Plant – Essex Junction White Mt Paper Company – Bellows Falls
Industrial Insulation, Inc. – Essex Junction White Pigment Corporation – Florence
International Paper Company – Bellows Falls Windsor Manufacturing Corporation – Windsor
International Paper Company – Wilder Windsor State Prison – Windsor
Joel H. Gates & Company – Burlington Woodbury Granite Company – Hardwick
Jones & Lamson Mach Company – Springfield Wyman Flint & Sons – Bellows Falls
 

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