BREESE, Ill. – Poettker Construction has earned a spot on the Associated Builders and Contractors’ 2026 Top Performers List.
This recognition honors ABC contractor members’ outstanding achievements in health and safety, quality and project excellence, ranked by the number of hours worked.
As an ABC Top Performer, Poettker Construction achieved Platinum status in ABC’s STEP® Health and Safety Management System, which helps the best-performing contractors achieve incident rates nearly seven times safer than the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average, according to ABC’s Health and Safety Performance Report.
Companies participating in ABC’s STEP Health and Safety Management System average 658 percent safer than the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average — reducing total recordable incident rates by 85 percent — according to the ABC 2025 Safety Performance Report.
With safety as the company’s primary core value, Poettker employees completed more than 400,000 workhours without a lost-time incident and 5,120 hours of safety training in 2025. Poettker Construction also launched a drone program to benefit risk management by performing inspections and flagging potential issues from the air.
Poettker Construction’s 2025 performance also earned national recognition from ABC as the 11th top retail contractor and 61st top general contractor with additional top honors in the education, government, health care, industrial, infrastructure, military and office market sectors.