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AGC MA names Annual Safety Awards recipients

Boston, MA AGC MA held its annual Safety Breakfast Awards program on Friday, June 17th, to honor 32 AGC member firms for their outstanding commitment to safety in 2021 in the commercial construction industry.

The National Safety Award recognizes firms that have developed and successfully implemented industry-leading safety standards across its portfolio of work. The award program incentivizes construction firms to evaluate and improve existing safety standards. To qualify for a Safety Award, an AGC-member firm must participate in the AGC Safety Awards Program for three consecutive years and have either zero lost-day incidence cases, or an average incidence case rate 25% below the average rate of all firms that participate in that division.

The 2021 NASA recipients include:

• Bond Civil and Utility Construction, Inc.;

• Citywide Contracting, LLC;

• Colantonio, Inc.;

• Columbia;

• Commodore Builders;

• Construction Coordinators, Inc.;

• D.A. Sullivan & Sons, Inc.;

Erland Construction, Inc.;

• Ernest Guigli & Sons, Inc.;

• F.W. Madigan Company, Inc.;

• G. Greene Construction Co.;

• Gilbane Building Company;

• Lee Kennedy Co., Inc.;

• M.L. McDonald Drywall;

• Sea-Dar Construction;

• Senate Construction Corp.;

Shawmut Design and Construction;

• Siena Construction Corporation;

• Tocci Building Corporation;

• W.S. Kenney Co. Inc.;

• W.T. Rich Company, Inc.;

• Walsh Brothers, Inc.; and

• Weston & Sampson, Inc.

The AGC MA Merit Awards honor companies who met the AGC of America criteria, but did not submit three consecutive years and/or companies who were very close to hitting AGC of America criteria.

The 2021 Merit Award recipients include:

• Bond Building Construction;

C.E. Floyd Company, Inc.;

• Consigli Construction Co., Inc.;

• Dimeo Construction Company;

• Elaine Construction Company;

• John Moriarty & Associates;

• TG Gallagher; and

• Central Ceilings, Inc.

 

This year the Clifford E. Simmons Award was awarded to Construction Coordinators, LLC for achieving the closest to – but not over – 100,000 of recorded hours with the Best Safety Record Under 100,000 Hours.

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