Operator was using PWC for water skiing.  The skier decided to swim to shore and the observer wound the tow rope around her left hand.  As operator headed back to the dock.  The observer fell off the PWC with the tow rope around her left hand.  She began to yell about her hand which was severed.  At the dock a witnesses pulled the observer from the water and then took the hand to put on ice.  She was transferred to Stonybrook University Medical Center and treated for an amputated hand.
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