Balfour Beatty fined £2.6M following worker death

Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions has been fined £2.6M and ordered to pay £54,000 costs at Preston Crown Court after pleading guilty to health and safety breaches that led to the death of a worker when a trench collapsed on him.

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