Balfour Beatty Infrastructure will pay $80,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit against it, which involves a female truck driver in Craven County, N.C., who claimed she was subject to lewd comments and acts during her work for the company and said that when she complained to a supervisor the contractor responded by transferring her to an undesirable work location.

The allegations involved crude and intentional comments and actions, such as a coworker asking the victim to "talk dirty" and asking her to send him pictures of her breasts. The coworker also sent her sexually explicit texts. After her complaint, the driver's coworkers struck back with profanity-laced denunciations, including a declaration that construction is "a man's world."