Davis was hunting from a tree stand, and he was reaching up to snap his safety harness into a fall-restraint tether lassoed to the tree when a screw holding his tree stand in place broke loose.

Ahead of deer hunting season, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is reminding hunters to avoid placing deer stands ...

The recalled harnesses have the model numbers RTH-2000S and RTH-2001S and were sold as part of Rhino Tree Stands/Ladder Stands that have model numbers: RTH-100, RTH-200, RTL-100, RTL-200, RTL-300 ...

A hunter connects his safety harness tether to a sliding knot on the rope at ground level, and then pushes that knot up as he climbs. If the hunter falls, the knot grips the life line tight ...

They document 1,109 tree stand accidents, but Smith said if the scope of that search was expanded to include all accidents between Sept. 1 and Feb. 28 of each year, there were another 162 victims ...

Connect your harness to your tether line and keep your tether line short. Always have three points of contact while climbing into and out of the tree stand: two hands and one foot or two feet and ...

Almost all tree-stand accidents could be avoided if hunters will wear a full-body harness and keep a tether attached to the tree from the time their feet leave the ground until they touch the ...

The tether is designed to keep you in the seat, not to catch you after you fall. Always have three points of contact while climbing into and out of the tree stand.

They document 1,109 tree stand accidents, but Smith said if the scope of that search was expanded to include all accidents between Sept. 1 and Feb. 28 of each year, there were another 162 victims ...