HONOLULU (AP) - A fatal zip line accident last fall has Hawaii lawmakers asking whether the inspection requirements should be more stringent.
But those in the industry question whether the requirements proposed in Senate Bill 2433 go far enough. As one operator testified, inspections generally cost $5,000 and stretch across multiple days.
The bill, heard Tuesday, would require the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to conduct $100 inspections. The department opposed the measure, suggesting an audit might be more appropriate.
The Labor Department is continuing to investigate the September accident that killed a construction worker and seriously hurt another.
The workers were testing adjustments they had made to the zip line when it snapped and one worker plunged 200 feet to his death.
The other was critically injured when a tower collapsed.
