Glynn Electric

Glynn Electric is a Plymouth, MA electrical contractor whose name turns up again and again in local news for a reason bigger than wiring jobs. Press coverage over more than a decade shows a company as comfortable installing solar panels at a 170-year-old lighthouse on Cape Cod as wiring a $4 million apartment complex. The company's BBB profile, current as of today, lists it running since 1986 with about 150 employees and an A+ BBB rating (Glynn Electric has not sought BBB accreditation). It describes itself primarily as a commercial electrical contractor serving healthcare, educational, retail, hospitality and assisted-living clients under president Matthew Glynn, but the same profile also states it takes on residential work, from a single new outlet to a whole-house generator. What's out there about the company is almost entirely press coverage rather than customer reviews. A 2020 report called it 'one of the largest electrical contractors in Massachusetts' when it opened a Rhode Island office, and in 2021 High-Profile Monthly covered a Trammel Crow apartment project worth over $4 million. Earlier coverage, dating back to 2007, shows a pattern of donated and volunteer electrical work: a middle-school ballfield lighting system in Whitman, a veterans' farming project in Plymouth, a Red Cross blood drive it hosted, and a solar installation at the Monomoy Point Light Station with Cotuit Solar and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Two things are worth knowing before calling. The federal OSHA database shows two separate workplace-safety inspections of Glynn Electric job sites: one in Hanover, MA, that started with two serious violations and $19,511 in proposed penalties, later reduced to one violation and $9,282, and a second, at a Westborough hospital site, that resulted in four citations totaling $22,448. Both appear to be closed enforcement matters rather than open cases. Separately, a 2023 interview describes Matt Glynn in the past tense as having owned the company 'for over 30 years' and reflects on the legacy he left behind after exiting the business, language that suggests a change in ownership, while the company's own BBB listing still names him as president today. It is worth confirming who currently runs the operation. Given the scale of the work described in the press, commercial buildouts, healthcare and educational facilities, big-dollar contracts, this looks like a stronger call for a large residential electrical project such as a full rewire, a generator install, or a service upgrade than for a single small repair, and it is worth asking directly about current ownership and management before signing a contract.