Balfour Beatty fined

Balfour Beatty has been fined almost £200,000 over an incident in which a rail worker was fatally electrocuted.

Jason Lee Pepall was working for Balfour Beatty as a contractor from McGinley Recruitment Services.

He was acting as lookout, as well as doing some physical work, for a gang of workers repairing conductor rail insulator pots on the Oakley section of the London-to-Winchester line in 2003.

The gang also included workers Gary Elton and Tendai Ndoro. Just before the incid... (223 more words)

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