The State of Hawaii’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health has cited the Honolulu Fire Department for two OSHA violations following its investigation into the training death of Clifford Riggsbee last June.
Riggsbee died during water rescue training in an area known as Suicides near Diamond Head. He was 63 at the time of his death. HIOSHA fined the department $15,400, with one citation being because the safety officer did not have a clear view of the surf where the exercise was talking place and the other for there being a worn wrist lanyard on a watercraft.