# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
> OSHA SIR `2017043559` · 4/20/2017 · WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-outdoors
## Employer
- **Name:** Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
- **Location:** 1815 Augustine Cutoff, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, 19803
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking from his office to his personal vehicle in the parking lot. As he descended some wooden steps, he slipped and fell down 3 to 4 stairs to the asphalt parking lot, tearing the quadricep tendons in both of his knees. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

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