# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Akima Infrastructure Protection LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025044028` · 4/30/2025 · MIAMI, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Ankle(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Multiple types of bodily position and motion
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Akima Infrastructure Protection LLC
- **Location:** 500 SW 177th Ave, MIAMI, FLORIDA, 33194
- **NAICS:** 922140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An new employee was participating in an on-the-job training. The employee was demonstrating a defensive knee strike tactic when he suffered a left ankle injury. As he was pivoting to sprint backward as part of the simulated disengagement drill, his left ankle rolled and he sustained a torn Achilles tendon that required surgery.

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