OPINION BY
¶ 1 Janet F. Jessop, as administrator of the estate of Harold W. Jessop and in her own right, appeals the January 22, 2004 Order granting appellees’ motion to dismiss this asbestos tort case on the basis of forum non conveniens and granting appel-lees leave to re-file the lawsuit in Kansas. Jessop alleges her husband died from Mesothelioma he contracted as a result of asbestos exposure during his sixteen year career working as an electrician for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.
¶ 2 The record reveals the following pertinent factual and procedural history. Appellant is a resident and domiciliary of Kansas. The decedent worked solely in Kansas during his entire sixteen year career with the railroad. The decedent was diagnosed with the alleged asbestos-related disease by a Kansas doctor, and died in March 2001.
¶ 3 This action was commenced in November 2001. The deposition of appellant’s product identification witness, Vincent Schmidtlein, was completed on September 30, 2003. During that deposition, Schmidtlein testified he only knew the decedent to have worked in the Topeka, Kansas rail yard of Atchi-son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railways. Ap-pellees insist and the trial court concluded appellees needed this information to support its motion to dismiss for forum non conveniens. On October 6, 2003, five months before the then-scheduled February 2004 trial, appellee ACF Industries, LLC, (ACF) filed a joinder complaint and the instant motion to dismiss based on forum non conveniens pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 5322(e). 1 Numerous responses were filed to the motion to dismiss, and on December 16, 2003, the trial court held a hearing on the motion. On January 22, 2004, the court granted the motion contingent upon appellees’ stipulation to consent to the transfer and submit to the jurisdiction of the State Court of Topeka Kansas, Shawnee County District Court, accept service of process, and waive the statute of limitations defense. This timely appeal followed in which appellant raises the following issues: 2
1. Did the lower court commit an abuse of discretion and/or error of law when it failed to follow D’Alterio v. *803 N.J. Transit Rail Operations, [845 A.2d 850 (Pa.Super.2004)]?
2. Did the lower court commit an abuse of discretion and/or error of law when it failed to give proper weight to Mrs. Jessop’s interests?
3. Did the lower court commit an abuse of discretion or error of law when it did not consider all relevant public factors?
Appellant’s brief at 3.
¶ 4 We apply the following legal principles in our disposition of this case. We review an Order dismissing an action on the basis of
forum non conveniens
only for an abuse of discretion.
Poley v. Delmarva Power & Light Co.,
¶ 5 In determining whether “weighty reasons” exist so as to overcome the plaintiffs choice of forum, the trial court must examine both the private and public interest factors involved.
Engstrom, v. Bayer Corp.,
the relative ease of access to sources of proof; availability of compulsory process for attendance for unwilling, and the cost of obtaining attendance of willing, witnesses; possibility of a view of the premises, if a view would be appropriate to the action; and all other practical problems that make trial of a case easy, expeditious and inexpensive.
With regard to the public factors a court must consider, this Court has recognized that
administrative difficulties follow for courts when litigation is piled up in congested centers instead of being handled at its origin. Jury duty is a burden that ought not to be imposed upon the people of a community that has no relation to the litigation. There is an appropriateness, too, in having the trial in a forum *804 that is at home with the state law that must govern the case, rather than having a court in some other forum untangle problems in conflict of laws, and in law foreign to itself.
D’Alterio v. N.J. Transit Rail Operations,
¶ 6 The court considered the private factors set forth above and found significant that the decedent’s entire sixteen year work history was solely in the state of Kansas and he was diagnosed with the alleged asbestos-related disease by a Kansas doctor. Trial Court Opinion, Ackerman, J., 3/17/04, at 3. Appellant resides and is domiciled in Kansas.
Id.,
at 4. All pertinent events occurred outside of Pennsylvania, and all known and additional witnesses likely reside outside of Pennsylvania.
Id.
Appellee ACF asserted that throughout the course of discovery so far completed, it has been required to travel to Kansas at great expense.
Id.
Kansas is an alternative forum available to appellant.
Id.,
at 3. These conclusions are strikingly similar to those found determinative in
Cinousis v. Hechinger Department Store,
The plaintiffs are not residents of Pennsylvania. The pertinent events giving rise to the cause of action occurred outside of Pennsylvania. The relevant medical records of plaintiffs physician after the alleged accident are located outside of Pennsylvania. The known witnesses reside outside of Pennsylvania and any additional witnesses will most likely reside outside of Pennsylvania. Finally, the plaintiffs have another more convenient forum available to them in New Jersey.
Id., at 733.
¶ 7 The court also examined the public factors enumerated above and concluded they weigh heavily in favor of dismissal. It found the most compelling public interest factor favoring dismissal is the enormous burden the court already faces in mass tort litigation, largely the result, it explained, of out-of-state plaintiffs who chose to file in Philadelphia for no reason other than their attorneys have offices there. Trial Court Opinion, at 21. Further, as it found the case had no connection with Philadelphia, it concluded “[tjhere is simply no valid reason that the people of Philadelphia County should bear the burdens of adjudicating this case, including jury duty and the expense conducting a trial.” Id., at 20. Significantly too, Kansas law would most likely apply to this case, requiring the court to engage in a conflict of laws analysis and apply unfamiliar foreign law, thereby adding needless legal complexity to the matter. Id., at 21.
¶ 8 In sum, the court concluded that:
[t]he public interest in efficient judicial administration strongly favors dismissing this action currently filed in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas and permitting Plaintiff, if so desired, to re-file the action in Kansas. Philadelphia has no connections with the allegations Plaintiff has put forth in this action. Simply put, there is no relationship between the facts of this case in [sic] Philadelphia County. Plaintiff has no connection to Philadelphia County whatsoever. Accordingly, neither Pennsylvania nor Philadelphia citizens should not [sic] be forced to expend time and *805 tax dollars on a controversy that does not even have tangential contacts with Pennsylvania, let alone Philadelphia County.
Trial Court Opinion, at 4.
¶ 9 Appellant argues the court erred in failing to follow D’Alterio, supra, in which we reversed the trial court’s sua sponte dismissal of the plaintiffs complaint for forum non conveniens on grounds that extensive discovery had already been conducted, indeed, “all pre-trial preparation had been completed, and the parties were scheduled for trial.” See Engstrom, supra, citing D’Alterio, supra, at 854-855. As we recently explained, critical to our holding in D’Alterio was that
at no time did [Appellee] object to Appellant’s choice of venue or raise the issue of forum non conveniens. Indeed, at the hearing on the rule to show cause, [Appellee] failed to allege that its access to sources of proof or to witnesses would be impeded by trial in Philadelphia. Furthermore, when counsel for Appellant advised the trial court that the sole eyewitness to the accident had agreed to go to Philadelphia to testify, that the doctor’s deposition had been videotaped, and that, as a result, there was no inconvenience to Appellant .. .the trial court simply responded, “there is an inconvenience to the court system and the taxpayers of the City of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.”
Engstrom, at 57, citing D’Alterio, at 854-855.
¶ 10 This case can easily be distinguished from D’Alterio in that the court here did not sua sponte dismiss the case; rather, appellee ACF filed the motion to dismiss based on information gleaned during discovery. Moreover, in contrast to D’Alterio, the court here extensively addressed the issue of discovery and the timeliness of the motion. It noted the parties in this case prepared various case management orders and provided for a discovery schedule that justified the time of the filing of the motion to dismiss, since, it explained, the record must be sufficiently established to allow consideration of such a motion. Trial Court Opinion, at 23. The court had ordered all product identification and answers to interrogatories were due ninety days prior to jury selection and all deposition of appellant and co-workers were to be completed no later than thirty days prior to jury selection. Id., at 4-5. Appellee ACF filed the motion to dismiss five months prior to trial, when discovery was not substantially completed. Id., at 21. Moreover, the court found the fact that discovery had taken place was outweighed by (1) the fact the discovery so far completed could be utilized in the new forum; (2) the private factor analysis showing virtually no contact with Pennsylvania; and (3) by the public factor analysis alone. Id., at 22-23.
¶ 11 We also note the case of
Farley v. McDonnell Douglas Truck Serv., Inc.,
¶ 12 Appellant argues the trial court failed to properly discuss and weigh the pertinent private and public factors. Appellant has argued “many of the asbestos products at issue were manufactured or assembled in Philadelphia, particularly [appellee] Budd rail cars assembled in Philadelphia and the Budd disc brake linings made in Philadelphia to which decedent was exposed” and “one of moving defendant ACF’s predecessors had been incorporated in Philadelphia for a short period of time while it manufactured and assembled rail cars with asbestos in Ber-wick Pennsylvania[.]” Record, appellant’s statement pursuant to Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b), at 1-2, paragraphs (e) and (f); see also appellant’s brief at 10-11. The court found these allegations may support findings of jurisdiction and venue, but were not sufficiently weighty in consideration of a motion to dismiss for forum non conve-niens. Rather, it found virtually all factors weighed in favor of dismissal. We find no abuse of discretion.
¶ 13 Appellant also contends the trial court gave improper weight to her interests and ignored the hardships she would incur upon dismissal including, “the great cost ... in financing of the travel of her [two] experts from their home base in Philadelphia or videotaping their testimony in Kansas.” Appellant’s brief at 9. Incongruently, however, she also argues it is no hardship whatsoever for appellees to go to Kansas to videotape “anyone they need.”
Id.,
at 12. She also cites
Alford v. Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Inc.,
¶ 14 Appellant also contends that she, unlike the corporate appellees, does not have a “perpetual life,” and by transferring this case, she “faces the possibility of not receiving justice for the defendant asbestos manufacturers’ actions during her lifetime.” Appellant’s brief, at 16. While this Court can certainly sympathize with this argument, it does not change the fact that, as the trial court concluded, this case has no connection whatsoever with Philadelphia or Pennsylvania. In considering all of the factors required of it in a forum non conveniens analysis, the court committed no abuse of discretion in finding weighty reasons support the dismissal of the case in favor of disposition in an alternate, more convenient forum.
¶ 15 Appellant also argues the court erred by improperly choosing the forum of Kansas and more specifically the Shawnee County District Court, in which she must
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re-file her claim. In support of her argument, she cites
Jones v. Borden, Inc.,
¶ 16 Finally, appellant contends the court did not consider all relevant public factors. She cites
Page v. Ekbladh,
¶ 17 Another relevant public factor she contends the trial court failed to consider is that appellees are doing business in Pennsylvania and this Commonwealth has an interest in insuring its corporate citizens do not cause harm anywhere in the country. Appellant failed however to prove the facts of this case bear any connection to this Commonwealth. In considering all relevant factors to a forum non conveniens analysis, the trial court committed no abuse of discretion.
¶ 18 Order affirmed.
Notes
. 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 5322, Bases of personal jurisdiction over persons outside this Commonwealth, (e) Inconvenient forum.
. Various defendants were dismissed during the course of litigation. On January 22, 2004, the trial court dismissed all claims and cross claims against twenty-one of the defendants per the agreement of counsel. The appellees in this appeal are the defendants remaining in the case as of January 15, 2004.
. We note however the recent case of
Poley v. Delmarva Power and Light,
. We note
Jones v. Borden, Inc.,
.
Page v. Ekbladh,