I've thought seriously about the chances of falling in my two man ladder stand. I wear a harness when I bow hunt, because I have to stand to shoot and that's when I'd be most vunerable to fall. When I'm using the shotgun I won't wear one sometimes for comfort. Falling and hanging from one doesn't seem as though it'd be as much a danger as a climber. With a ladder stand you can at least kick around and try to grab the ladder itself because it will always be within reach.