Does anyone know of any injuries from wire ropes snapping?

[mikecotterill]

A subject on a land rover forum made me think if there has ever been an actual incidence of a wire winch rope snapping and injuring someone, a quick google found nothing, but I never seem to have any luck"googling"!!

[Dan Curtis]

My old man took one to the face, still has the scar 40+ years on

[HCR]

Saw one snap once - it took all the paint of the rear cross-member on the Land Rover it hit, but luckily no people were stood in the way.

[PhilBeech]

Saw a tirfor cable go and badly injure a man when I was in my teenage years working with my Dad. A lesson well learned.

[pie eater pete]

Saw one go bein used on some steel erecting but there was a winch blanket on the line to absorb it.

[Brushcutter]

Oh yes. I know a guy who has a big scar on his face from a wire rope snapping on a mantidor.

 

I've broken a steel cable on a 6.5t winch and that narrowly missed me as it came pinging back. I've broken 2 or 3 more out in the woods and not done myself or anybody else any harm. Took a big chunk out of a tree though.

[will.morris]

I always think about this when I'm putting a lot of tension in a winch . I know the handle is designed to fail first but doesn't bear thinking about if it did happen.

[Peter]

Mythbusters did a load of tests with a pig carcass and some big cables, worth a watch if you can track it down.

[Chris Sheppard]

Not injured but had one take the back window of a tractor out once.

[eddiegts]

I was tracking a 8 inch timber wolf up a very steep bank to get it of the rail line was using a winch to help it up was all going well until the wire rope snapped and came back towards me and nearly took one of the lads head off was very close! I banged my leg up due to the chipper sliding on me. Oh the reason for it snapping was due to the guy who took it up the bank slung it round a tree then hooked it back onto the wire.