# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at J.F. White Contracting Company
> OSHA SIR `2018088970` · 8/30/2018 · BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Knee(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Embankments
- **Secondary source:** Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** J.F. White Contracting Company
- **Location:** 75 Francis St., BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02115
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee slipped while walking down an embankment and fell to the ground, suffering a ruptured patellar tendon.

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