On 7/17/2010 at approximately 11:30 Operator was pulling Victim on a wakeboard.  Victim was just learning how to get up on the wakeboard and this was only his second attempt to get up on the board.  Victim advised me that he was almost up out of the water when the front of the board dug into the water causing him to do nosedive into the water.  After Victim fell Operator turned the vessel around and pulled back up to Victim.  Victim advised Operator that he had hurt his leg.  At this time Operator got into the water to help remove the wake board, but he was not above to remove the wakeboard due to the pain.  They were unable to unscrew the boots from the wake board because they did not have a screwdriver.  They flagged down a person on a jet ski and they borrowed a razor knife to cut the boots off.  After getting the boots off Operator and the person on the jet ski were able to load Victim into the vessel.  At this time he was transported to a relatives house in Pecan Slough.  After the ambulance arrived he was transported to the Phoebe Sumter Hospital.  After reaching the Phoebe Sumter Hospital his left leg was x-rayed and it was discovered that his left femur was broken just above the knee.  He was later transported to the Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany to have surgery performed the next day.  The surgery consisted of the physician placing a steel rod into him femur and setting it into place with 4 steel rods.  On 7/21/10 Victim was released from the hospital.
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