ON 7/5/09 I WAS ADVISED BY A SUBJECT AS I WAS LEAVING HUMBUG COVE THAT THEY HAD A SUBJECT ON BOARD THAT STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN STRUCK BY A PROPELLOR. I IMMEDIATLY HAD PEORIA FIRE DEPT RESPOND TO THE 10 LANE BOAT RAMP AND THE SUBJECT WAS TRANSFERED TO MY PATROL BOAT. FIRST AID WAS ADMINISTERED, THE WOUND WAS LEFT OPEN SO THAT THE FIRE DEPT. COULD ACCESS THE INJURY. I NOTED A MEDIUM SIZED LACERATION ABOUT 5 INCHES IN LENGTH JUST POSTERIOR TO THE TIBIA OF THE LEFT LEG. DUE TO THE SIZE OF THE OPENING IT WAS JUST RINSED AND COVERED WITH A CLEAN BANDAGE. DUE TO THE VERTICAL LACERATION ON THE LEG IT APPEARED TO ME THAT THE PROP WAS NOT IN FACT IN MOTION OR UNDER POWER AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT. RATHER I BELIEVE THAT HE INADVERTENLY KICKED THE PROP WHILE TRYING TO CLIMB INTO THE BACK OF THE BOAT. I SPOKE TO THE OPERATOR OF THE BOAT AND HE RELATED TO ME THAT HE AND HIS FRIENDS HAD BEEN TIED UP TO A RAFT OF BOATS IN HUMBUG COVE FOR MOST OF THE DAY AND HE HAD UNTIED FROM THE RAFT AND BEGAN LOOKING FOR HIS FRIENDS. AFTER THEY WERE LOCATED HE PULLED ALONG SIDE ONE OF THE BOATS SHUTTING OFF THE MOTOR TO LOAD HIS PASSENGERS. HE STATED THAT WHEN HE CAME ALONGSIDE THE BOAT THE INJURED PARTY HAD JUMPED INTO THE WATER AND CAME UP BEHIND THE BOAT ATTEMPTING TO ENTER THE TRANSOM SIDE OF THE BOAT. HE LET OUT A SCREAM AND HE WAS PULLED INTO THE BOAT WITH THE BLEEDING LACERATION. THIS INFORMATION APPEARS TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE INJURY AND ITS PLACEMENT ON THE LEG. NO CITATIONS WERE ISSUED FOR THIS ACCIDENT. NOTHING FURTHER.
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