At around 17:55 the vessel was towing the vessel operators son on a knee board near the mile 22 marker.  The operator and passengers on the vessel said that the knee boarder jumped high up over a wake and landed hard on the board.  He said that it hurt his back and they got him out of the water and layed him on his front side on the back seat of the vessel.  At about that time Officer and I came on scene while patrolling on the lake.  When we arrived victim was complaining that his lower back hurt very badly and didnt want to move.  Officer contacted Franklin County dispatch and had them send an ambulance to the access area next to the HWY 130/ Lee''s Ford bridge nearby.  We then followed the vessel to the access area and helped the paramedics get victim loaded into the ambulance.  I then got the vessel owner''s information and filled out an accident report.  victim was treated and released at Southern Middle Tennesse Medical Center.  They found that he had a compression fracture to a vertebra in his lower back.
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