Keywords: Balfour Beatty, GT Railway Maintenance, Elec-Track, rail regulation, power lines, permit to work, Marston Green,

Rail firms fined £600,000 after worker electrocuted

Prosecutions and Claims |
20.05.2008

Balfour Beatty and two other firms have been fined a total of £600,000 after a worker suffered 30% burns and had to have part of his leg amputated after receiving an electric shock from an overhead power line.

The accident happened in July 2003 at Marston Green near Birmingham during ...

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