Was Kiewit Construction / Peter Kiewit Sons' — asbestos documented in litigation?

Kiewit Construction / Peter Kiewit Sons' — is documented in public asbestos litigation records as a manufacturer whose products contained asbestos during the mid-twentieth century. Workers in industrial facilities, power plants, refineries, shipyards, and commercial construction who handled or worked near these products may have experienced occupational exposure.

Which trades had the most exposure?

Pipe coverers and insulators, pipefitters, boilermakers, millwrights, and maintenance workers are among the trades most frequently documented in asbestos exposure claims. Workers who cut, fitted, or removed asbestos-containing products — and those working in close proximity during that work — typically had the highest fiber concentrations.

How long do workers have to file an asbestos claim?

Statutes of limitations for asbestos personal injury claims vary by state, typically ranging from one to five years from the date of an asbestos-related diagnosis. The clock generally starts at diagnosis, not exposure — mesothelioma can have a latency period of 20 to 50 years. An asbestos attorney can identify the deadlines that apply to your specific situation.

Can workers file claims related to Kiewit Construction / Peter Kiewit Sons' — asbestos exposure?

Yes. Workers diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestos-related lung cancer, or asbestosis after exposure to Kiewit Construction / Peter Kiewit Sons' — products may pursue claims through civil litigation. An experienced asbestos attorney can assess available defendants, applicable trust funds from co-defendants, and the states where claims can be filed most effectively.

Can family members file secondary exposure claims?

Spouses, children, and household members who developed asbestos-related disease through contact with contaminated work clothing brought home by an exposed worker may be eligible for secondary (household) exposure claims. Wrongful-death claims can also be filed by surviving family members of workers who died from asbestos-related disease.

Industrial-Furnaces

Peter Kiewit Sons' / Kiewit Corporation Heavy Industrial, Power, and Infrastructure EPC Construction Projects

⚖ Litigation Record1884-present (asbestos era through 1980s)Asbestos block and pipe insulation on Kiewit-constructed power-plant boilers, process piping, and utility steam systems; asbestos gaskets and packing on Kiewit-installed valves, pumps, and heat exchangers; asbestos refractory linings on Kiewit-erected furnaces, heaters, and hot vessels; asbestos spray fireproofing on Kiewit structural steel

Overview Product Facts Trades

Litigation Record: Information below reflects allegations in publicly filed asbestos litigation — plaintiff allegations, not findings of fact.

Premises Description

Peter Kiewit Sons’ / Kiewit Corporation (founded 1884 in Omaha NE; today one of the largest privately held construction contractors in North America; headquartered Omaha NE) is one of the pre-eminent U.S. heavy industrial and infrastructure engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors — historically dominant in Midwest and Western U.S. heavy civil, mining, and power-plant construction.

Through the asbestos era, Kiewit engineered and constructed:

Fossil-fuel power plants across the Midwest, Great Plains, and Western U.S. — coal-fired and gas-fired generating stations for utility and industrial customers
Nuclear power plants — Kiewit served as a major nuclear-construction contractor
Refineries and petrochemical projects — refinery EPC and turnaround work
Surface coal mines and mining infrastructure — Powder River Basin and other Western coal mining
Heavy civil, highway, tunnel, dam, and infrastructure projects nationwide
Interstate Highway and public infrastructure work

Kiewit’s business model dispatches its own construction workforce — boilermakers, pipefitters, ironworkers, welders, operating engineers, and craftworkers — plus contracted union trades to power-plant and industrial project sites nationwide.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Kiewit-engineered and Kiewit-constructed power plants, refineries, and industrial projects specified through the asbestos era extensive asbestos-containing materials — including block and pipe insulation on utility boilers and process piping, refractory linings on furnaces, gaskets and packing on valves and pumps, and spray-applied fireproofing on structural steel — and that Kiewit exposed its own construction workforce as well as dispatched pipefitter, insulator, and boilermaker trade workers to extensive asbestos on Kiewit EPC projects.

Peter Kiewit Sons’ / Kiewit Corporation has been named as a Premises/Construction Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.

Workers Exposed

Kiewit Construction craft workforce — welders, fitters, pipefitters, boilermakers, ironworkers, operating engineers, and craftworkers
Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on Kiewit power-plant, refinery, and industrial projects
Pipefitters (UA Local members) on Kiewit process and steam piping
Boilermakers (IBB Local members) on Kiewit boiler and pressure-vessel installation
Ironworkers (IW Local members) on Kiewit structural steel and infrastructure
Operating engineers (IUOE Local members) on Kiewit heavy-civil equipment
Dispatched trade workforces on Kiewit EPC projects nationwide

If You Worked on a Kiewit Construction EPC Project

If you worked on a Kiewit-engineered or Kiewit-constructed power plant, refinery, petrochemical project, mine, tunnel, or heavy industrial project during the asbestos era — as a Kiewit employee or as a dispatched contractor trade worker — and have since been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, or another asbestos-related illness, you may have legal rights.

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Product Facts

Trade NamePeter Kiewit Sons' / Kiewit Corporation Heavy Industrial, Power, and Infrastructure EPC Construction Projects

Years Produced1884-present (asbestos era through 1980s)

Asbestos ContentAsbestos block and pipe insulation on Kiewit-constructed power-plant boilers, process piping, and utility steam systems; asbestos gaskets and packing on Kiewit-installed valves, pumps, and heat exchangers; asbestos refractory linings on Kiewit-erected furnaces, heaters, and hot vessels; asbestos spray fireproofing on Kiewit structural steel

CategoryIndustrial-Furnaces Gaskets

Trust FundNo active trust

Exposed Trades & Occupations

BoilermakersRefinery pipefittersInsulatorsIronworkersWelders

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