# Amputations at Swingen Construction Company
> OSHA SIR `2020098605` · 9/10/2020 · PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Swingen Construction Company
- **Location:** West of Ramkota Hotel, PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57501
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was directing crane operations. Other employees were welding an H-beam together for the ring beam. The apparatus used to twist the 30-foot H-beam failed and the beam fell off the fixture onto the employee's right leg. The leg was crushed below the knee resulting in a surgical amputation.

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