Scioto County — Portsmouth, Franklin Furnace, and Haverhill — ran on steel, coke, and chemicals: the Portsmouth-area coke and the New Boston steel works, and the Haverhill chemical plants, where high-heat process work reportedly carried heavy asbestos exposure.

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).