# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at MPP Sycamore
> OSHA SIR `2025077187` · 7/23/2025 · SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thigh(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  unspecified
- **Source:** Stairs, steps
- **Secondary source:** Water, liquids nonchemical
## Employer
- **Name:** MPP Sycamore
- **Location:** 215 North Fair Street, SYCAMORE, ILLINOIS, 60178
- **NAICS:** 339999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking up a set of three steps that lead out of a pit. Water that had leaked from a valve was on his boots and he slipped and fell backward to the floor. The employee sustained an injury to his L5 vertebra and a ruptured hamstring that required surgery.

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