At Mountaineer Sports, our revolutionary fall protection products will help keep you safe. Your safety is our primary focus and we will work hard to continuously improve fall protection system for you and your loved ones.

 Dr. Norman Wood grew up hunting and fishing in his home state of West Virginia. A former West Virginia State Trooper and Special Agent, Dr. Wood decided to attend medical school in 1992 after 16 years in law enforcement. In 1998 during his residency training at Ohio Valley Medical Center, he fell 20 feet out of a tree. He broke his pelvis in two places and his left hand. He was not wearing a fall arrest harness. As Dr. Wood states, when you cannot walk for four months it gives you a lot of time to think.

 During his recovery and up to the present time, Dr. Wood has been working on different safety products that make tree stand hunting safer. He formed Mountaineer Sports in 2007 and started marketing the Tree Stand Safety Belt. Dr. Wood joined the Treestand Manufacturing Association in 2009.

 In 2009, Dr. Wood finished his long term project, the Rescue One CDS (Controlled Descent System) Harness, a new revolutionary full body safety harness that eliminates serious injury or death from suspension trauma. The Rescue One CDS allows the user to safely and quickly lower themselves to the ground if a fall has occurred and recovery back to a standing position is not possible.

 Dr. Wood owns and operates Doctors Urgent Care, Westernport, MD.