Hunting accidents do happen, but few involve accidental shootings.

Don’t panic, use a moment to formulate a plan Pull out your Tension Relief Strap and tie the lose end to the lineman D-ring. Stand up to relief tension immediately, Pull out your cell-phone and call someone who knows where you are.

Tell them your exact location, the time you fell, Flip. Aug 27, The top five primary causes of falls included: slipping or losing grip (28 percent), stand strap breaks (16 percent), human error (11 percent), stand breaks (eight percent) and step/ladder failure (seven percent). Photo Credit: Brad HerndonAuthor: TSSA. Sep 18, Treestand Accidents: Can We Stop the Insanity?

All Stand Types Can Be Dangerous. The first step is obvious: Always wear and use a safety harness regardless of the type Peer Pressure Can Be Good. If you already wear a safety harness, that’s great! Now, make sure your friends or Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.

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Oct 19, He and one of his freinds were putting up a ladder stand on a club they joined, and he climbed to the top going to strap it to the tree and it kicked out. His freind seen it and tried to push it back againts the tree but my freind fell 15 feet and landed on top of him, breaking his leg in three places. My freind didn't get hurt in the fall. One hundred eleven (52%) hunters were injured by falling from a tree stand, 49 (23%) fell while descending from a tree stand, and 40 (19%) fell while climbing to a tree stand; for 14 (7%), this information was unknown.

Mechanical failure (i.e., collapse of the tree stand or its steps) occurred in 68 (32%) of the incidents. Sep 17, Crews responded to an area near Burnt Sawmill Road around a.m. for a report of a man who fell from a high point in the woods.

Stonebraker examined the first two stands and climbed up the tree sticks for the third, his favorite hunting spot.

12 News learned the man had been on a tree stand, Author: Melanie Dasilva. Jan 11, Ricky Stonebraker fell 20 feet from a tree stand in October and sustained a number of injuries. As he recovers, the community has rallied around his Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. The TreeStand Wingman is a revolutionary fall arrest / emergency descender system that protects hunters from tree stand injury.

When coupled with a tree stand safety harness is has been proved to reduce suspension trauma or death from a tree stand related fall. The device can be used while climbing, hunting, & even descending into a tree treeclean.bars: