U.S. Shipyard Asbestos Exposure Dataset v1.6

Release notes dated September 4, 2026: a compact, citable record of what changed, what did not change, and how to describe this successor release accurately.

Citable release

Danziger, P., and De Llano, R. (2026). U.S. Shipyard Asbestos Exposure Dataset v1.6 [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22313866.

For an individual facility claim, cite the linked primary source whenever possible; the dataset provides a release-level record and source path, not a substitute for the primary record.

What changed

v1.6 retains 37 shipyard records and 87 documented products, and contains 118 evidence findings. It adds 12 selected, establishment-specific official OSHA inspection or Chemical Exposure Health Data findings and corrects one former Bath Iron Works OSHA citation that referred to an exit-route requirement rather than asbestos evidence.

Scope and limits

The OSHA additions are administrative inspection and sampling records, not a representative census of conditions or conclusions about individual exposure, dose, medical causation, product source, or liability. Brooklyn is limited to the G. Marine Diesel tenant establishment at Building 386; Newport to Derecktor at Coddington Cove; and Todd to the San Francisco establishment rather than Alameda. Mare Island and Tampa candidates were excluded for insufficient site/entity matching.