# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Peoples Gas & Light
> OSHA SIR `2020010944` · 1/29/2020 · JEFFERSON PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
- **Source:** Machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Peoples Gas & Light
- **Location:** 4730 N Kenneth, JEFFERSON PARK, ILLINOIS, 60630
- **NAICS:** 221210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were removing a meter inside a customer's establishment to perform a meter transfer. The injured employee was lowering the meter when he lost his grip and it slipped from his hands, striking his left thigh. He suffered a ruptured quadricep in his left thigh.

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