EWG Action Fund /// Asbestos Nation
Mapping the Deadly Toll of Asbestos – State by State, County by County
12,000 to 15,000 Americans die each year from three asbestos-related diseases
Fifty years after a landmark medical study definitively established that asbestos kills, the exact death toll remains unknown. Combining federal death records with studies on lung cancer deaths from asbestos, EWG Action Fund calculated that 12,000 to 15,000 Americans a year die from asbestos-related diseases. In all, from 1999 to 2017 an estimated 236,981 to 277,654 Ameri...
Fifty years after a landmark medical study definitively established that asbestos kills, the exact death toll remains unknown. Combining federal death records with studies on lung cancer deaths from asbestos, EWG Action Fund calculated that 12,000 to 15,000 Americans a year die from asbestos-related diseases. In all, from 1999 to 2017 an estimated 236,981 to 277,654 Americans died from asbestos exposure. This interactive map shows the number of deaths in each state during that period. Clicking on a state shows a more detailed map and a table with asbestos deaths in each county.
Asbestos-related deaths (1999-2017)
Legend: 7,500-21,500
Legend: 4,000-7,500
Legend: 2,000-4,000
Legend: 1,000-2,000
Legend: Under 1,000
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