Tara Construction Inc.

The loudest thing attached to Tara Construction Inc. isn't a job — it's a federal courtroom. In June 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor and Insurance Journal reported that a Boston jury ordered the company to pay $50,000 in compensatory damages, and the company and its owner a further $600,000 in punitive damages, to a drywall taper who had broken his leg falling from a ladder on one of its jobs. The company's own site presents a West Bridgewater general contractor that self-performs building envelope finishes, window installation, rough and finish carpentry, and drywall, and says its management staff carries a combined 100-plus years in Massachusetts construction. It also describes itself as a minority owned business (MBE) that uses union carpenters exclusively. An unclaimed Procore listing files it more narrowly, at 155 Howard Street, as a rough- and finish-carpentry specialty contractor. Customer testimony barely exists. Google shows 3.7 stars from three ratings, and the only written review on file is a one-word "Great" from September 2024 — nothing that describes an actual job, a budget, or a crew. The litigation is far better documented. The Department of Labor sued the company and CEO Pedro Pirez in February 2019, alleging they initiated a law-enforcement inquiry and facilitated the injured employee's detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after he reported the injury and OSHA opened a rapid-response investigation. Bloomberg Law reported the 2017 fall; boston.com covered the worker's 2022 trial testimony; ENR described him arriving at the West Bridgewater office with his two-year-old son to collect $500 from the CEO. Justia's docket shows the case carried on to the First Circuit in 2023, and Violation Tracker logs the $650,000 penalty under workplace whistleblower retaliation. Separately, SVEP Navigator reports an OSHA inspection opened in December 2017 at a Roxbury Crossing site that drew three citations and $9,390 in proposed penalties, one under the duty-to-have-fall-protection standard. So the questions ask themselves before any contract: what became of the appeal, what the company's workers' compensation and liability coverage looks like today, and whether it can produce recent homeowner references — because almost nothing residential is published. As it stands this reads as a carpentry and envelope contractor with a heavy federal labor history and virtually no customer history, and the reference check is the whole job.