# Sprains, strains, minor tears at Olameter Corporation LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024087259` · 8/8/2024 · NEW CANEY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Sprains, strains, minor tears
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level due to slip or trip
- **Source:** Ground
- **Secondary source:** Hole in ground
## Employer
- **Name:** Olameter Corporation LLC
- **Location:** 117 White Oak, NEW CANEY, TEXAS, 77357
- **NAICS:** 926130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually reading the electric meters at an abandoned home. He was walking back to his vehicle through overgrown vegetation and household debris when he stepped in a hole, twisted his left knee, and fell to the ground. As he got up and tried to walk, his right knee twisted as well and he fell a second time. The employee sustained a torn left quadricep tendon and a torn right patellar tendon requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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