# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at American Airlines, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024054122` · 5/10/2024 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Other constructed surface
- **Secondary source:** Water, liquids nonchemical
## Employer
- **Name:** American Airlines, Inc
- **Location:** 8500 Essignton Ave, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19153
- **NAICS:** 481111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee slipped on a wet floor while walking through an indoor breezeway between offices and the airport terminal. The employee fell and sustained a fractured patellar tendon and a bruised coccyx.

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