Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments

Name: Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments at Eversource Energy Service Company
Start: 6/27/2025

1 hospitalization · 2025066197 · 6/27/2025 · Eversource Energy Service Company

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level unspecified
Source: Stairs, steps
Secondary source: Stairs, steps

Employer

Name: Eversource Energy Service Company
Location: The Hartford Club, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, 06103
NAICS: 221122
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was leaving a customer location. While descending stairs, their shoe slid on edge of the top stair causing them to fall and land on their right leg a couple of stairs below. The employee sustained a ruptured patella tendon requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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