Yes, most common when taking out too large and leaning of a head, especially with a standard face cut/ back cut, and no chain or rope/ webbing binding of the stem.
When you are hearing and feeling the stem crack as you cut, you know there are a lot of internal forces trying to reach equilibrium, as the physical reality of the tree changes, cut by cut.
I got called by a guy to finish a huge walnut, which his Bud Light, Rockstar, nicotene brain bid at $700. Homeowner got someone else to finish it. I would have charged him more than that to finish the tree, no clean-up. When he was blocking down a big leader, he had a chain binder on the stem. He must not have bound it tightly, for some reason, or it stretched the chain when it split. It came tight with inches divinding the split, 4", if not 8". He didn't want to go back up into that tree.
Spur and single lanyard only guys are at risk more, IMO, as they might get pushed into the decision to take a bigger top because it starts bending over too much, or they reach a spreading crotch that their flipline doesn't accommodate... same guy as above.