Mansfield built ranges, motors, and steel. The Tappan stove works, the Westinghouse and Ohio Brass plants, the AK Steel (Empire-Reeves) works, and the Mansfield Tire operations ran here for a century, and their furnaces, ovens, and process systems reportedly relied on asbestos-containing materials for most of it.
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).