Dodge County — Fremont — held the meatpacking, grain-processing, and municipal power operations of the lower Platte, work whose high-heat and process systems reportedly used asbestos-containing materials.

Nebraska allows four years from a mesothelioma or asbestos-cancer diagnosis to file a claim, measured from discovery (Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-224, the asbestos discovery rule). Wrongful-death timing should be confirmed with counsel — the general wrongful-death statute (§ 30-810) sets two years from death, while § 25-224’s asbestos discovery provisions may apply. Cases are filed in the county District Court of proper venue; Nebraska has no statewide asbestos MDL.