Toxic and Abandoned: Accurate Plating Company Superfund Site

What was once a metal plating company in Cleveland now stands abandoned on a piece of land contaminated by hazardous waste.

A stone's throw away from the abandoned Cleveland Railway Company and Westinghouse Electric industrial complex (which you can read about by clicking here) lies a cluster of abandoned industrial buildings along Carnegie Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Among them are former factories of Warner & Swasey Company and a boarded-up red brick building once occupied by Accurate Plating Company.

Accurate Plating Company was founded by Charles J Foley in 1967 and specialized in the electroplating, polishing, and finishing of metal products.

The company operated for several decades, but ran into trouble with The Environmental Protection Agency due to its status as a large quantity generator of hazardous waste.

The Environmental Protection Agency designated Accurate Plating Company as a Superfund site contaminated by hazardous waste and a candidate for cleanup because of the risk it poses to human and environmental health.

The building now sits mostly empty...

with gaping holes in the roof and vines spreading out across the floor.

A few artifacts remain inside the offices, which have been thoroughly ransacked.

The future of the old Accurate Plating Company building remains unclear. As an EPA Superfund site, the land must be cleared of hazardous waste before it can be used again.

Just down the street from Accurate Plating Company is a pair of abandoned businesses, a Car Audio Shop and Headboard Factory. Click here for pictures and info.

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