Premises Description

Turner Construction Company (founded 1902 in New York NY by Henry C. Turner; today a subsidiary of German construction group HOCHTIEF; headquartered New York NY) is one of the largest and oldest U.S. general contractors for commercial, institutional, and high-rise building construction. Through the 20th century, Turner built office towers, hospitals, universities, schools, hotels, and corporate headquarters across the United States.

Through the asbestos era, Turner’s commercial and institutional construction projects routinely specified extensive asbestos-containing materials, including:

  • Spray-applied asbestos fireproofing on structural steel of high-rise office towers, hospitals, and institutional buildings — commonly Cafco, Monokote, W.R. Grace Zonolite, or U.S. Mineral Products fireproofing sprayed onto beams, columns, and decking
  • Asbestos pipe covering and block insulation on building steam, hot-water, chilled-water, and HVAC piping and mechanical-room boilers
  • Asbestos-containing acoustical ceiling tile and acoustical plaster in offices, classrooms, patient rooms, corridors, and public spaces
  • Asbestos vinyl-asbestos floor tile and floor-tile mastic in lobbies, corridors, patient rooms, classrooms, and offices
  • Asbestos-containing joint compound, wall systems, and finishes in interior partition and wall work
  • Asbestos gaskets and packing in building mechanical-room boilers, pumps, and HVAC equipment

Turner’s business model dispatched Turner project superintendents and craft workforce plus contracted union trades — insulators, pipefitters, sheet-metal workers, carpenters, electricians, and drywall finishers — to commercial building sites nationwide.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Turner-constructed office towers, hospitals, universities, and commercial buildings specified through the asbestos era extensive asbestos-containing fireproofing, pipe and boiler insulation, ceiling tile, floor tile, and joint compound, and that Turner exposed its own project workforce as well as dispatched insulator, pipefitter, sheet-metal, carpenter, and drywall trades to asbestos on Turner commercial building projects.

Turner Construction Company has been named as a Premises/Construction Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.

Workers Exposed

  • Turner Construction project superintendents and craft workforce
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) insulating pipe and boilers on Turner mechanical work
  • Pipefitters (UA Local members) on Turner building HVAC, steam, and process piping
  • Sheet-metal workers (SMART Local members) on Turner HVAC duct and ventilation systems
  • Carpenters (UBC Local members) installing Turner ceiling tile, floor tile, and wall systems
  • Electricians (IBEW Local members) on Turner building electrical
  • Drywall finishers and painters using asbestos-containing joint compound on Turner projects
  • Building trades workforces on Turner commercial construction projects

If You Worked on a Turner Construction Commercial Building Project

If you worked on a Turner Construction office tower, hospital, university, school, hotel, or commercial building project during the asbestos era — as a Turner 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.

Free, confidential case evaluation: Speak with O’Brien Law Firm — (314) 936-2956