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Asbestos / Mesothelioma Statistics in El Paso
~35
Annual Mesothelioma Diagnoses (El Paso MSA)
2 years
SOL from Diagnosis
ASARCO copper smelter, Fort Bliss, railroad maintenance, construction
Key Exposure Industries
El Paso County District Court
Primary Litigation Venue
Courts in El Paso, Texas
El Paso County District Court
500 E San Antonio Ave, El Paso, TX 79901
Hospitals & Trauma Centers in El Paso
University Medical Center of El Paso — Cancer Center
4815 Alameda Ave, El Paso, TX 79905
Liability Considerations in El Paso
Asbestos Exposure Sources in El Paso
The ASARCO El Paso Copper Smelter operated on the U.S.-Mexico border from 1887 until its closure in 1999 and is a major EPA Superfund site with documented heavy metal and asbestos contamination from the smelter's insulation and process equipment. Maintenance workers at the smelter who replaced boiler insulation, pipe lagging, and refractory materials over decades of operation face elevated mesothelioma risk. Fort Bliss — the Army's largest air defense artillery center — employed maintenance workers on asbestos-containing military equipment and in facilities built with asbestos materials. The Southern Pacific Railroad maintenance shops in El Paso exposed railroad workers to asbestos in locomotive insulation.