# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Reinhart Food Services
> OSHA SIR `20161211575` · 12/12/2016 · FALMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Ramps, loading docks, dock plates
## Employer
- **Name:** Reinhart Food Services
- **Location:** 271 Main Street, FALMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS, 02540
- **NAICS:** 424420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading food from a tractor-trailer. He exited the trailer and proceeded down a ramp with a two-wheel dolly that was loaded with food product. He then lost his footing, fell forward on his knees, and rolled approximately 3 feet off the side of the ramp onto the ground. He ruptured the bilateral tendon in both knees.

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