Incident
Yale Cordage Wire Core Flip Line
Date of incident
1991-05-05
Location of incident
Atherton California Canada
Age of impacted party
30
Outcome
Serious Injury
Type of incident
Equipment failure
Type of equipment involved
Lanyard
Type of injury
Other
Bodily injury to
Head/neck
Action taken
Post-incident physiotherapy
Involvement of contributor
Worker performing task
Weather
Sunny/mostly sunny
Causes of the incident
Equipment failure
Description of incident
Metal fatigue on the cable inside the rope where it was crimped at the end and not visible.
Contributing factors
Not tied in with 2 lines, which became a standard after my incident and another a month earlier in Australia.
Incident review and preventative measures
unforeseeable incident, finishing a 5 day job about 12:45 p.m. starting up an 80' Redwood @ 15' I was hand sawing the lowest limb to my left side with both hands and on the pull back the flip line failed and I did a head dive backwards into the base of another Redwood my co-worker was in a ripped my neck so far forward it almost killed me, herniated discs in my neck and lower back, major trauma, PTSD. Always tie in with 2 lines which became a standard after 2 failures.
Link to media
http://TheNeckOfTheWoods.com
Form completed by (optional)
Eddie Farquharson