# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Columbia Recycling Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020109508` · 10/6/2020 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## 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
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Columbia Recycling Corporation
- **Location:** 1001 Chattanooga Avenue, DALTON, GEORGIA, 30719
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee stepped out of his truck at a public landfill, heard his knee pop, and fell. The employee sustained a separated left kneecap, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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