GRAND FORKS — At first, Jory Berg wasn't sure his right hand was still attached.

His work truck caught the edge of a puddle on a gravel road going about 20 miles an hour. It flipped over. He went through the windshield.

Nerves and tendons in his right arm were severed, so he lost feeling and didn't initially realize how much damage was done.

"I walked back to the other pickup that had the other crew," said Berg, who was working at the railroad in Crookston, Minn. "I went to reach for the door and realized my hand wasn't there. I said, 'I think I have to go look for my hand in the field.'

"Then, I turned my arm to the side and my hand was gruesomely facing the other way."

The crew called an ambulance to take him and his passenger to Altru Hospital in Grand Forks.

Doctors told Berg the

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