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Ryan McDougall & Peter A Walker

Haulage firm fined £150,000 after driver killed by overhead power lines

A haulage company has been fined £150,000 after a driver was electrocuted by overhead power lines.

Grant Borton, 25, an employee with Andrew Black, died while using the wash bay to clean his truck at the firm’s Drem Airfield base in East Lothian, ahead of his next shift on 31 December, 2021.

As he raised his truck’s tipper, it made contact with the power lines.

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