# Amputations at Vigen Construction, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181111333` · 11/2/2018 · GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Vigen Construction, Inc.
- **Location:** 1823 Mill Road, GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA, 58203
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was rigging a 6-foot bundle of steel to be hoisted off a roof, approximately 105 feet high, with a crane. When the crane lifted the bundle off the roof, the employee's hand was caught in the wire rope sling. He suffered an amputation to the left index finger.

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