For two hundred miles the Ohio River is Ohio’s power corridor. The great coal-fired stations line the bank — Gavin at Cheshire, Kyger Creek, the Sammis plant at Stratton, Cardinal at Brilliant, Kammer and Mitchell above Shadyside, the Muskingum River and Conesville plants inland — alongside the Ormet aluminum works and the Marietta chemical plants. Coal-fired generation and heavy process industry are among the most asbestos-intensive work there is, and the river’s trades were reportedly exposed for full careers.
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).