Sounds suspiciously like operator error. Even if the grigri's action failed to automatically brake, it should still work as an ATC if the belayer was using it correctly. Was there any apparent damage to the device? Probably not.pawilkes wrote:um...ME
i don't know exactly what happened, either it was threaded backwards or the belayers hand got jammed in the device when i fell but i fell from the top of the gym to the ground, probably 30 feet. the only thing that saved me was the skin on my belayers hands, they were totally burned up.
Edited to say: This should happen even if it was threaded backwards.