OSHA: Required Safety Measures Could Have Prevented Deadly Accident

A federal workplace safety investigation found that a 34-year-old worker’s fatal fall might have been prevented had the operator of a Pauma Valley zip-line attraction implemented required safety measures. An Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation of the Oct. 30, 2021, incident determined that, after grabbing a zip-line harness on a customer on the tower platform at La Jolla Zip Zoom Ziplines, the worker and the customer were both pulled off. The worker let go of the harness and fell about 50 feet to the valley floor. Inspectors found that the company failed to...