SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A former employee is suing San Diego Gas & Electric for allegedly failing to intervene in hazing and harassment he says he experienced while training and working as a line assistant for the utility company.
In the lawsuit obtained by FOX 5/KUSI, Beckett Bowers’s attorneys allege that he frequently experienced being called homophobic epithets, sexualized threats, assault and harassment, forcing him to quit and leaving him with lasting physical and mental scars.
Bowers, who was 18 at the time, began training as a line assistant in February of 2025 under a SDG&E journey lineman named in the lawsuit…