# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Eversource Energy Service Company
> OSHA SIR `2025066197` · 6/27/2025 · HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Stairs, steps
- **Secondary source:** Stairs, steps
## Employer
- **Name:** Eversource Energy Service Company
- **Location:** The Hartford Club, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, 06103
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was leaving a customer location. While descending stairs, their shoe slid on edge of the top stair causing them to fall and land on their right leg a couple of stairs below. The employee sustained a ruptured patella 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*