Very similar to
carpet burn but obviously
hapens when a
rope runs through your hands.
Now this might not seem like a common occurance but
when you do a lot of
climbing or
caving then there
is a large potential for receving this
injury.
When you belay someone there are two ends of the rope
passing through the belay device. If the person falls then
their weight comes on the belay device and you must hold the correct rope, the rope that will halt the person from falling. This is known as the live rope. If you hold the
rope on the wrong side of the belay device most devices won't work and the person will fall. The rope will
rapidly run through your hand causing severe rope burn.
Your partner may hit the ground and break bones or even kill themselves.
Allways pay attention to which rope you are holding whilst belaying!.
dwardu informs me that
a very frequent form of rope burn happens while sailing... a very common occurence for rope to slip between hands powered by wind on a huge sail...