LearningTOfly 0 #1 July 4, 2005 Just wondering... What are the details/ statistics regarding accidents occuring due to harness malfunction- or more specifically, harness failure? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymedic 0 #2 July 4, 2005 www.skydivingfatalities.info Look it up yourself.... Marc otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerrob 558 #3 July 4, 2005 You will have a hard time finding statistics about harness failures because they are so rare. Harnesses are so hopelessly over-engineered that errors in donning are more common than harness failures. There was one case of a hip joint flipped through that popped a few stitches. Other manufacturers suffered a few fatalities when people mis-threaded chest strap buckles. In the 3 years that I specialized in harness repairs - at Rigging Innovations - we saw few damaged harnesses, none of them fatal. Several harnesses were damaged (bent hip rings and popped stitches) by hard openings caused by sloppy packing of ZP mains, right after ZP fabric was introduced. In one case, all the owner had to do to solve the problem was switch to smaller rubber bands. We also had to repair several harnesses that students dragged the length of taxiways. ... and there was always the usual wear and tear caused by thousands of jumps in the desert. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LearningTOfly 0 #4 July 5, 2005 Thanks for the info and the link- much appreciated- I couldn't find any such incedents on the specified site... which is a good thing, I suppose. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymedic 0 #5 July 5, 2005 exactly.... rigs just don't fail...unless you treat them like garbage and let them be hurt by acids or such. but they typicaly just don't fail... Marc otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiverek 56 #6 July 11, 2005 Chck this thread on this issue, it has some good info from Bill Booth and JumpShack: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=924793#924793 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlindBrick 0 #7 July 12, 2005 The only death due do harness failure in recent memory is the student who died after a Student Javelin's adjustable MLW opened all the way up, snapping their neck with the chest strap(IIRC). The only failure I've seen was video of a friend's rig after of the stitching failed while jumping at Quincy. This was back before I was a rigger so I couldn't say what caused it, or what rig type. I never saw the rig in person because since it was at the WFFC, the jumper just left it with the manufactuer. While he was a large jumper who had a Sabre opening on an old rig, I suspect there was some substance that got on the stitching thus weakening it to the point of failure. -Blind"If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
katzurki 0 #8 July 12, 2005 I remember that weird, weird fatality in... Italy? The jumper went to cutaway and somehow tore the harness, falling out of it... memory's failing me, lemme see if I can find the thread. Here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=512835 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
