Was Zachry Construction / Zachry Holdings — asbestos documented in litigation?

Zachry Construction / Zachry Holdings — 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 Zachry Construction / Zachry Holdings — asbestos exposure?

Yes. Workers diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestos-related lung cancer, or asbestosis after exposure to Zachry Construction / Zachry Holdings — 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

Zachry Construction / Zachry Holdings Heavy Industrial EPC Construction Projects — Power Plants, Refineries, and Petrochemical Complexes

⚖ Litigation Record1924-present (asbestos era through 1980s)Asbestos block and pipe insulation on Zachry-constructed process piping, boilers, and utility steam systems; asbestos gaskets and packing on Zachry-installed valves, pumps, and heat exchangers; asbestos refractory linings on Zachry-erected furnaces, heaters, and hot vessels; asbestos spray fireproofing on Zachry 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

Zachry Construction Corporation (founded 1924 by H.B. Zachry in San Antonio TX; today held under Zachry Holdings; headquartered San Antonio TX) is one of the pre-eminent U.S. heavy industrial engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors — historically dominant in Texas and Gulf Coast heavy industrial construction, and today building power plants, refineries, and petrochemical complexes nationwide.

Through the asbestos era, Zachry engineered and constructed:

Fossil-fuel power plants across Texas and the U.S. — coal-fired, gas-fired, and combined-cycle generating stations for CPS Energy, Central Power & Light, Houston Lighting & Power, Texas Utilities, and other utility customers
Nuclear power plants — Zachry served as a major nuclear-construction contractor including work at the South Texas Project (Bay City TX)
Gulf Coast refineries and petrochemical complexes — major EPC, turnaround, and capital-project work across the Texas Gulf Coast (Houston Ship Channel, Corpus Christi, Beaumont/Port Arthur)
LNG terminals, gas plants, and pipeline infrastructure across the Gulf Coast
Heavy civil, highway, and infrastructure projects across Texas

Zachry’s business model dispatches its own construction workforce — boilermakers, pipefitters, ironworkers, welders, and craftworkers — plus contracted union trades to industrial project sites nationwide.

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

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

Workers Exposed

Zachry Construction craft workforce — welders, fitters, pipefitters, boilermakers, ironworkers, and craftworkers
Refinery pipefitters (UA Local 195 Beaumont / UA Local 211 Houston / UA Local 68 Houston members) on Zachry Gulf Coast EPC and turnaround work
Boilermakers (IBB Local 74 Houston / IBB Local 587 Orange TX members) on Zachry boiler and pressure-vessel installation
Insulators (HFIAW Local 22 Houston / HFIAW Local 112 Beaumont members) on Zachry power-plant, refinery, and petrochemical projects
Ironworkers (IW Local members) on Zachry structural steel
Dispatched trade workforces on Zachry EPC projects nationwide

If You Worked on a Zachry Construction EPC Project

If you worked on a Zachry-engineered or Zachry-constructed power plant, refinery, petrochemical complex, LNG terminal, or heavy industrial project during the asbestos era — as a Zachry 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 NameZachry Construction / Zachry Holdings Heavy Industrial EPC Construction Projects — Power Plants, Refineries, and Petrochemical Complexes

Years Produced1924-present (asbestos era through 1980s)

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

CategoryIndustrial-Furnaces Gaskets

Trust FundNo active trust

Exposed Trades & Occupations

Refinery pipefittersBoilermakersInsulatorsIronworkersWelders

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