Thatcher
Harry Thatcher founded the company in 1946 in Waukegan, IL after serving in World War II with the US Navy Seabees. Tom Wysockey started in 1957 coming out of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Tom and two partners ran the company starting in the early 1970’s with offices in Chicago and Gary, IN. Tom became the sole owner in the 1980’s when Michael and John Wysockey started working during their school years. They came to work full time in the 1990’s and were running the business in the early 2000’s.
Thatcher has been known for Safety, Quality, Innovation, and Productivity for many years. Tom Wysockey was a founding board member of the Chicagoland Construction Safety Council and often said that we cared about safety back when OSHA was just a town in Wisconsin. The true safety culture that other companies strive for exists fundamentally at Thatcher.
The ability to achieve high productivity levels without sacrificing quality or safety requires constant innovation. Team Thatcher is always looking to find ways to do things better. Whether it’s earth retention design or deep foundations, we take testing and measurements to another level. This has been the way throughout Thatcher’s great history and continues forward as the way we do things.