# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Harger Utility Contractors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019033204` · 3/27/2019 · LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Harger Utility Contractors, Inc.
- **Location:** First Quality Tissue, LOCK HAVEN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17745
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a vacuum to suction sand out from the bottom of an air filter bed used to filter fiberglass during paper production. The employee stepped down from a plywood plank being used as a temporary work platform; the employee's foot got caught between two dividers in the filter bed, causing the employee to fall. The employee suffered a torn anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

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