# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Nelson Wire and Steel
> OSHA SIR `2015063394` · 6/3/2015 · NEW SALEM, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Stairs, steps, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Nelson Wire and Steel
- **Location:** 1015 New Salem Road, NEW SALEM, PENNSYLVANIA, 15468
- **NAICS:** 331222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was treated at the hospital after falling approximately 5 feet to the concrete floor below while descending nine-foot portable stairs. The employee tore his rotator cuff and received stitches to his left elbow. The employee was attempting to dislodge a chain attached to an overhead crane at the time of the incident. The employee was unloading wire mesh from a delivery truck in the Blue Building garage door area.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*