# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at SAFETY KLEEN
> OSHA SIR `20171111196` · 11/22/2017 · BUFFALO, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Boarding, alighting-excluding slip, trip, fall-single episode
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
## Employer
- **Name:** SAFETY KLEEN
- **Location:** 60 Katherine Street, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, 14210
- **NAICS:** 325199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stepping down from the cab of a vacuum truck and tore a tendon in the right knee.

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