NIOSH confirmed hazard from significant exposure to metal fumes and solvent vapors; historical reports of overexposure to asbestos were common among workers with 8+ years experience

Population: 1,000 employees at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, Groton, CT (International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades members) · 1979-1981 (surveys conducted July/August/October 1979, May 1980, March 1981)

Limitation: Primary overexposures were metal fumes and solvents. Report discusses prior asbestos insulation use and pulmonary function parameters associated with reported asbestos exposure — not an asbestos fiber-count HHE and not a mesothelioma cohort.

Longshore BRB decision naming Electric Boat Corporation as employer in LHWCA occupational disease claim

Population: Electric Boat Corporation worker · LHWCA claim · 2014

Limitation: Confirm full PDF for asbestos/asbestosis facts before treating as asbestos-disease primary source.

OSHA’s 1978 inspection identifies the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics at Eastern Point Road, Groton, and lists two current “Other” citations under 29 CFR 1910.1001.

Population: Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics establishment, Groton · 1978–1979 case record

Limitation: This record reports the inspection and citations as OSHA displays them. It does not include a measured asbestos result, individual worker information, historical exposure conditions across the facility, product source, medical causation, or liability.