The assault was revealed by Balfour Contract Director Marc Woodall throughout an ITV report on street employee abuse.
Woodall stated: “Solely within the final week in East Sussex, we had an incident the place we had a street closure in place.
“A member of the general public was annoyed and wished to get by means of. When our workers refused, that particular person pulled a knife and bodily and verbally threatened them.”
Balfour Beatty Residing Locations is at the moment engaged on a £297m highways and infrastructure providers contract for East Sussex County Council.
The tv reviews additionally featured Balfour Beatty Part Engineer Amit Soorajbally on the £355m A63 enchancment undertaking close to Hull.
Soorajbally stated: “We’ve got skilled verbal abuse and threats. In a single occasion, a member of public began punching and kicking our tools and threatening our workers on web site. This was very scary and it turns into troublesome to work beneath these situations.”
Balfour Beatty has put in place a lot of measures to guard these liable to roadworker abuse, together with the roll-out of physique cameras in addition to elevated cell CCTV to precisely seize and report incidents.
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