# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at New Jersey Natural Gas
> OSHA SIR `2023087264` · 8/10/2023 · WALL TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Boarding, alighting-excluding slip, trip, fall-single episode
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
- **Secondary source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** New Jersey Natural Gas
- **Location:** 1415 Wyckoff Road, WALL TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY, 07719
- **NAICS:** 221210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tying down a tractor on a flatbed trailer with tie down chains. He then stepped back off the trailer to the ground, and felt pain in his left hip. The employee sustained a torn hip flexor.

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