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Fulfilling Your Mechanical Construction Needs For More Than 55 Years

Beginning in the Quad Cities market, Ragan now serves the central Mississippi River Valley with clients throughout Iowa and Illinois and in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Ragan Mechanical has the flexibility to accommodate everything from small remodel jobs to large new construction projects. Its workforce contains a balance of expertise that enables the company to achieve maximum cost-effectiveness for its clients.

The skilled Ragan Mechanical workforce averages 34 years' experience. To meet the needs of a specific project, Ragan often augments its core workforce with experienced journeymen members of the following unions:

  • United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada
  • International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
  • Sheet Metal Workers International Association

Ragan Mechanical is signatory to such agreements as the National Industry Maintenance Agreement, the National Commercial Pipe Fabrication Shop Agreement, and the General Presidents' Project Maintenance Agreement. Maintenance agreements such as these help contractors provide consistent high quality, cost-effective service to all their customers, wherever they may be located.

Dedicated to A Safe Mechanical Construction Workplace

Ragan Mechanical's award-winning safety program consistently produces one of the safest work environments in the mechanical contracting industry. Built on a simple principle of creating a culture of safety so each employee goes home each day safe and injury free, Ragan's safety program continually strives for GoalZERO, no injuries both on the job and at home.

Ragan Mechanical's strong commitment to a safe workplace goes well beyond stating our compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. Ragan Mechanical was awarded and maintains VPP STAR Contractor status in OSHA's Voluntary Protection Programs, at the LyondellBasell, Clinton, Iowa Plant. STAR Certification is OSHA's premiere recognition, awarded to companies that have strong safety programs and performance. It's a tremendous accomplishment for Ragan management and employees to be working partners with OSHA and LyondellBasell. The benefits of being a VPP STAR Contractor has resulted in increased safety awareness and reduced employee injury and illnesses.

Ragan's Safety Director, Mike Tomsha, has well over 20 years of experience with the company and takes safety right to the workers on the job site. He conducts safety training, tool box talks, and assists employees on potentially hazardous tasks such as confined space entry.

Besides safety education, Ragan does the following: 

  • Conducts a formal Job Safety Analysis (JSA) of the job site to evaluate potential hazards, producing a safety plan of hazards and preventative measures for employee protection
  • Completes safety audits during walk-around inspections of a site to remind works of accident-prevention and safe work practices

Ragan Mechanical consistently achieves an Experience Modification Rate (EMR) that is among the lowest in the industry. Measuring the company's annual actual accident experience against the insurance industry's prediction, Ragan yearly achieves an excellent rating score well below 1.0. The company's OSHA Recordable Injury Rate, injuries per number of man hours worked, consistently ranks among the best in the industry. Most importantly, Ragan Mechanical has not recorded a lost time injury for the last six consecutive years (as of January 2019) and has also worked safely 26 consecutive years without a lost time injury, at the LyondellBasell, Clinton, Iowa Plant.

Recent Safety Awards

  • TAUC - The Association of Union Contractors: 2018 Thomas J. Reynolds Award for Construction Safety and Health
  • IA-IL Safety Council / National Safety Council: In Recognition for Hazardous Control Excellence
  • Illowa Construction Labor & Management Council: In Recognition for Outstanding Safety Performance
  • Millennium Captive Insurance Company: Certificate of Achievement for Lost Workday Case Rate, Total OSHA Recordable Rate, DART Rate Below the Industry Average.
  • LyondellBasell: GoalZERO Bright Star Award for GoalZERO Safety Performance

In addition to our many safety awards, we have pre-qualification status with numerous companies including John Deere, Monsanto, Arconic, LyondellBasell, Nestlé Purina, Tyson Foods, SSAB, Alliant Energy, Rock Island Arsenal, Gerdau Steel and many others. Ragan also maintains pre-qualification with a multitude of general contractors.

Our Dedication To Quality & Service

From heavy industrial mechanical service to residential plumbing, quality and service are our top priorities at Ragan Mechanical. It has always been about the customer and delivering high quality service and we will do everything we can to continue to be who you call when you want it fixed right.

In a world where technology has taken over, we have learned to embrace it. Done properly, we believe this can increase the work that we are already doing, allowing us to stay competitive in the marketplace.

Our investment into industry-leading software, machinery and our team members allows us to deliver the kind of quality we strive for, while reducing overall costs for our customers.

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