Asbestos victim Advice - Asbestos in Your Area

Whilst asbestos was widely used in all industries and areas, in our experience there are hotspots where deaths from asbestos are more prevalent than the national average. This is by now means a definitive list and it is virtually impossible to list all the areas.  We have listed some of the worst areas known to us.

North and North West

• Barrow  – The shipbuilding industry
• Birkenhead – Ship building
• Liverpool  – Docks and Shipbuilding
• Widnes – Asbestos production and chemical industry
• Rochdale  – Asbestos Production
• Stalybridge   – Asbestos production and manufacturing
• Hebdon Bridge   – Asbestos production & manufacturing
• Ponterfact   – Power Stations
• Leeds
• Bradford – Textiles and manufacturing
• Wakefiled  – Textiles and Manufacturing
• Doncastor – railway engineering

North East

• Newcastle – Shipbuilding
• Sunderland – Shipbuilding and asbestos production
• Gateshead – Shipbuilding
• Stockton on Tees – Asbestos manufacturing
• Middlesborough  – Shipbuilding

 Midlands

• Crewe & Nantwich – Railway workers
• Derby  – Power Stations and railways workers
• Rugeley (Staffs) – Power Stations
• Burton on Trent  – Power stations
• Wolverhampton   – Tyre industry and manufacturing

South and South East

•  Barking and Dagenham – Asbestos manufacturing
• Chatham – Dockyards
• Portsmouth  – Dockyards
• Southampton    – Docks and Shipbuilding
• Gillingham   – Ports
• Eastleigh  – Railway workers
• Thurrock – Power Stations
• Castle Point
• Basildon –
• Brentwood
• Gravesend
• Dartford

South West

• Caradon – Ports & Dockyards
• Plymouth – Dockyards and Shipbuilding
• Bristol – Docks and shipyards
• Thamesdown – Railway engineering