{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://asbestosatlas.org/shipyard/brooklyn-navy-yard#provenance","name":"New York Naval Shipyard — Evidence Provenance Record","description":"Machine-readable provenance for 4 evidence records documenting historical asbestos exposure at New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn, NY.","url":"https://asbestosatlas.org/shipyard/brooklyn-navy-yard/provenance.json","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://asbestosatlas.org/shipyard/brooklyn-navy-yard#webpage"},"isPartOf":{"@type":"Dataset","@id":"https://asbestosatlas.org/data#dataset","name":"U.S. Shipyard Asbestos Exposure Dataset","identifier":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22313866","url":"https://asbestosatlas.org/data","version":"1.6"},"version":"1.6","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","spatialCoverage":{"@type":"Place","@id":"https://asbestosatlas.org/shipyard/brooklyn-navy-yard#place","name":"New York Naval Shipyard"},"variableMeasured":[{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Evidence records","value":4},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Evidence tier","value":"Tier 3"},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Direct source URLs","value":4},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Documented asbestos products","value":1}],"hasPart":[{"@type":"CreativeWork","@id":"https://asbestosatlas.org/shipyard/brooklyn-navy-yard/provenance.json#ev-brooklyn-navy-yard-04","name":"ev-brooklyn-navy-yard-04: litigation documented","identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Asbestos Atlas Evidence ID","value":"ev-brooklyn-navy-yard-04"},"additionalProperty":[{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Evidence tier","value":"Tier 3"},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Verification status","value":"verified"}],"url":"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/772/1380/2344887/","citation":"In re Eastern and Southern Districts Asbestos Litigation, 772 F. Supp. 1380 (S.D.N.Y. 1991) (Weinstein, J.)","disambiguatingDescription":"Consolidated multi-district litigation opinion; establishes documented asbestos exposure at Brooklyn Navy Yard through judicial record but does not provide quantitative epidemiological data."},{"@type":"CreativeWork","@id":"https://asbestosatlas.org/shipyard/brooklyn-navy-yard/provenance.json#ev-brooklyn-navy-yard-05","name":"ev-brooklyn-navy-yard-05: historical record","description":"WWII-era industrial-hygiene survey of pipe-covering (asbestos insulation) operations across four anonymized yards (Navy Yards A & B; Contract Yards C & D): 3 asbestosis cases among 1,074 pipe coverers x-rayed (0.29%); dust counts for dusty operations frequently high (band-saw cutting, cement mixing, and shipboard installation up to tens to >100 mppcf total dust). Authors concluded pipe covering was 'not a dangerous occupation' given then-current short tenures — a conclusion later widely criticized.","identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Asbestos Atlas Evidence ID","value":"ev-brooklyn-navy-yard-05"},"additionalProperty":[{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Evidence tier","value":"Tier 3"},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Verification status","value":"verified"}],"url":"https://www.worthingtoncaron.com/documents/Publications/03.-1946-Fleischer-_-Drinker-%5BWK-SOA-5754%5D.pdf","citation":"Fleischer WE, Viles FJ Jr, Gade RL, Drinker P. A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels. J Ind Hyg Toxicol. 1946;28(1):9-16.","temporalCoverage":"survey received 1945; published 1946 (WWII construction period)","disambiguatingDescription":"MULTI-YARD / ANONYMIZED: the primary text codes yards A/B (Navy) and C/D (Contract) and does NOT name Brooklyn Navy Yard or any specific yard; the 3/1,074 figure is a four-yard aggregate, not a Brooklyn-only prevalence. Attached to Brooklyn only to correct the record: a later court opinion (762 F. Supp. 519, S.D.N.Y. 1991) mis-collapses this survey to 'Brooklyn Navy Yard.' PMID 21016030 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21016030/). CDC/NIOSH conference review of the same survey also treats yards as anonymized (https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/184094). verified against primary source 2026-07-24"},{"@type":"CreativeWork","@id":"https://asbestosatlas.org/shipyard/brooklyn-navy-yard/provenance.json#ev-brooklyn-navy-yard-nara-lead-01","name":"ev-brooklyn-navy-yard-nara-lead-01: archival lead","identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Asbestos Atlas Evidence ID","value":"ev-brooklyn-navy-yard-nara-lead-01"},"additionalProperty":[{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Evidence tier","value":"Tier 3"},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Verification status","value":"unverified"}],"url":"https://catalog.archives.gov/","citation":"National Archives at Philadelphia, response to Inquiry #26-71389 (received July 24, 2026), with holdings-database exports for RG 181 Brooklyn/New York Navy Yard and Third Naval District; reconciled with National Archives, Guide to Federal Records, RG 181.3.5.","disambiguatingDescription":"Archival lead only — the Philadelphia response and workbooks confirm holdings-level candidates, not asbestos, industrial-hygiene, medical, exposure, disease, or worker-specific content. No box/folder list or document content has been reviewed. The exact Guide series title 'Medical correspondence, 1944–58' was not located under that title. This lead does not change the yard's Tier 3 evidence rating. Request box/folder lists and targeted research-room pulls before asserting any substantive finding. Do not file FOIA for these accessioned NARA holdings; if personnel records are implicated, screening or a St. Louis referral may be required."},{"@type":"CreativeWork","@id":"https://asbestosatlas.org/shipyard/brooklyn-navy-yard/provenance.json#ev-brooklyn-navy-yard-osha-g-marine-1989-106169584","name":"ev-brooklyn-navy-yard-osha-g-marine-1989-106169584: osha inspection","description":"OSHA’s 1989 referral health inspection of G. Marine Diesel Corp. at Building 386, Flushing Avenue and Cumberland Street, listed five “Other” citations under 29 CFR 1910.1001. The linked sample search reports one 26-percent bulk result (Lab B43294).","identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Asbestos Atlas Evidence ID","value":"ev-brooklyn-navy-yard-osha-g-marine-1989-106169584"},"additionalProperty":[{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Evidence tier","value":"Tier 3"},{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"Verification status","value":"verified"}],"url":"https://www.osha.gov/ords/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=106169584","citation":"OSHA Inspection 106169584, G. Marine Diesel Corp., Building 386; citations 01001–01005, 29 CFR 1910.1001; OSHA Chemical Exposure Health Data asbestos query, Lab B43294","temporalCoverage":"1989–1992 case record; sample dated November 29, 1989","disambiguatingDescription":"The OSHA record concerns the private G. Marine Diesel Corp. tenant establishment at Brooklyn Navy Yard Building 386, not the Navy Yard as a whole, its prior federal operation, or all work performed there. The 26-percent result is a bulk-material result and does not establish worker dose, historical exposure, product source, medical causation, or liability."}],"distribution":{"@type":"DataDownload","encodingFormat":"application/ld+json","contentUrl":"https://asbestosatlas.org/shipyard/brooklyn-navy-yard/provenance.json"},"citation":"Asbestos Atlas. (2026). New York Naval Shipyard — Evidence Provenance Record. U.S. Shipyard Asbestos Exposure Dataset v1.6. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22313866","isBasedOn":{"@type":"CreativeWork","name":"Asbestos Atlas Methodology and Source Criteria","url":"https://asbestosatlas.org/methodology"}}