# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at First Student LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024010511` · 1/17/2024 · TIVERTON, RHODE ISLAND
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level  caught self or curtailed
- **Source:** Stairs, steps
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** First Student LLC
- **Location:** 3624 Main Road, TIVERTON, RHODE ISLAND, 02878
- **NAICS:** 485410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was going down a set of stairs when their toe got caught on a stair and they fell onto their knee while holding the railing. The employee suffered a torn quadricep tendon in their right leg.

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