# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at FBI
> OSHA SIR `2023065512` · 6/21/2023 · BUFFALO, NEW YORK
## 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:** Water vehicle, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Water vehicle, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** FBI
- **Location:** 1 FBI Plaza, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, 14203
- **NAICS:** 921190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was participating in a maritime training exercise, making entry onto a boat that was dry-docked. He had ascended a 10-to-12-foot ladder secured to the side of the boat. He was then descending onto the boat and fell approximately two feet from the ladder onto the deck of the boat. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right wrist and ruptured right patella tendon.

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