# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
> OSHA SIR `2018044128` · 4/30/2018 · PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Stairs, steps-indoors
## Employer
- **Name:** Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
- **Location:** Naval Facilities Engineering Command Public Works, PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03804
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stepping from a doorway down a single step to the main floor when he fell and re-injured a knee that had recently had surgery. He was hospitalized.

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