****PLEASE NOTE****  THIS WAS ONE OF TWO BOATING ACCIDENTS operator HAD ON THIS SAME DAY
 
ON OR AROUND 3:14PM ON JULY 29, 2012, VESSEL ONE WAS BEING OPERATED BY OPERATOR IN THE AREA OF BACK SOUND BETWEEN TAYLORS CREEK AND SHACK.  VESSEL ONE RAN AGROUND ON A SANDBAR AND subject GOT OUT TO ATTEMPT TO PUSH THE VESSEL.  WHILE PUSHING THE BOAT, OPERATOR HAD THE BOAT IN GEAR.  Subject WAS STANDING BEHIND THE BOAT ON THE PORT SIDE WHEN HIS TOE MADE CONTACT WITH THE ENGAGED PROPELLER.  THEY CONTINUED THEIR DAY ON THE WATER UNTIL ONE HOUR LATER WHEN OPERATOR RAN OVER ANOTHER ONE OF HIS PASSENGERS CAUSING SEVERE INJURIES.  (NC-2012-0095)  subject WENT TO THE ER IN NEW BERN ON THE NIGHT OF JULY 29 FOR TREATMENT TO HIS TOE.

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