# Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `20201211487` · 12/8/2020 · NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA
## 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:** Barge
## Employer
- **Name:** Newport News Shipbuilding Division of Huntington Ingalls Incorporated
- **Location:** 4101 Washington Avenue, NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA, 23607
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was stepping from a barge to a pier when a tendon tore in his right knee.

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