I have a lot of treestands and do the majority of my whitetail hunting useing them and in all my years I have never fell, but I have jumped. I do have a friend down in Fla. that cracked a vertabra as he went to place his pack under his seat and he did a summersault. After that accident, his been hunting in ground blinds. I know it should be a wake up call in using a saftey harness but I must confese like NYBH, I don't like using them either, most of my stands would be kinda hard to fall out of anyway as many times I can take a quik napp with no problem. Bobby