KELO Newstalk reported that on Monday a construction worker in Sioux Falls, South Dakota had to have his leg amputated after an accident at a construction site.
The injured construction worker had to have his leg amputated below the knee after a steel beam broke loose and crushed his leg.
Sioux Falls Police say that the 33-year-old man was struck with the beam when he was trying to guide the beam into place with another worker. Callers to 911 said that they saw the man hanging in air.
Sioux Falls Fire Rescue and Paramedics Plus arrived at the Sanford Health Imaginetics building site at 22nd and Grange to assist the emergency.