# Fractures and soft tissue injuries at U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs
> OSHA SIR `2025076682` · 7/10/2025 · ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s) and leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Stairs, steps
- **Secondary source:** Stairs, steps
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs
- **Location:** 1100 Tunnel Road, ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, 28805
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was descending the back stairwell to go to lunch when he missed a step. As he fell forward, his toes hit a step which pulled his right leg behind him. He landed on the concrete stairwell landing between floors. He sustained a partial rupture of the right quadriceps tendon and an avulsion fracture involving the right patella. The employee required surgery.

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