# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Mosaic of Connecticut, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021064793` · 6/13/2021 · MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-indoors
- **Secondary source:** Shoes, boots, slippers, sandals
## Employer
- **Name:** Mosaic of Connecticut, Inc.
- **Location:** 35 Undercliff Road, MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, 06451
- **NAICS:** 621610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was carrying a storage bin of clothing down a flight of stairs when he tripped over a shoe that had fallen onto the stairs. The employee fell down the stairs and suffered a ruptured patella tendon in the left knee and a right wrist sprain.

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