Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments

Name: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Ingalls Shipbuilding
Start: 11/15/2018

1 hospitalization · 20181111803 · 11/15/2018 · Ingalls Shipbuilding

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Thigh(s)
Nature of injury: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments

Cause

Event: Standing, standing up-single episode
Source: Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker

Employer

Name: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Location: 1000 St Pe' Highway, PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI, 39567
NAICS: 336611
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee raised up from a squatting/kneeling position to avoid a fire hazard from hot work. While doing so, he ruptured/tore his right quadriceps tendon.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown