# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Ingalls Shipbuilding
> OSHA SIR `20181111803` · 11/15/2018 · PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **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.

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