Hedrick Brothers Construction has recorded 275,000 work hours without an incident, earning recognition through the National AGC Safety Awards program. The achievement was accompanied by three individual honors recognizing employees' contributions to mental health, worker safety and safety leadership.
The recognition highlights the company's reported safety performance and the role of employee engagement in supporting workplace safety across construction operations.
Hedrick Brothers team members received awards in three categories. Anna Schmidt earned the Mental Health Award for Commercial General Contractors, while Victoria Miel received the Worker Safety Award of Excellence for her efforts to educate and support employees.
Samira Turner, the company's safety manager, received the Mike Scarborough Safety Professional of the Year Award. Her credentials include Associate Safety Professional (ASP), Construction Health and Safety Technician (CHST) and Certified Construction Health and Safety Manager (CCHM).
Together, the individual honors recognize contributions spanning employee well-being, safety education and professional safety leadership.
The 275,000 incident-free work hours represent a key milestone in Hedrick Brothers' reported safety performance. The company emphasized that maintaining safety requires consistent attention from employees across its operations.
The National AGC Safety Awards recognize construction safety performance. Hedrick Brothers' certificate and employee honors bring attention to both its reported incident-free hours and the contributions of team members responsible for promoting safe working practices.
The recognition underscores the importance of combining measurable safety performance with initiatives that support employee well-being, training and leadership. For general contractors, safety programs depend not only on procedures and oversight but also on workers understanding hazards and supporting one another on the jobsite.
Hedrick Brothers' achievement provides an example of how incident tracking and individual recognition can reinforce a broader workplace safety culture.
Source: Hedrick Brothers.
