Jefferson County — Steubenville, Mingo Junction, Brilliant, and Stratton — is Ohio River steel-and-power country: the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel mills, the Cardinal plant at Brilliant, and the Sammis generating station at Stratton, where steelmaking and coal-fired generation reportedly ran on asbestos-containing materials for generations.
Ohio asbestos cases are filed in the Court of Common Pleas of the county of proper venue — there is no single statewide asbestos court, though Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) has historically carried Ohio’s largest asbestos docket. Ohio allows two years from a mesothelioma or asbestos-cancer diagnosis to file (Ohio Rev. Code § 2305.10), and two years from the date of death for a wrongful-death claim (§ 2125.02).