RedactedNarrative: SYNOPSIS:
  
  Male subject received a large laceration to his leg from a boat propeller and was losing blood quickly.
  
  INITIAL CALL:
  
  On 9/11/2018, at 13:10, Vernal Dispatch received a 911 call for a laceration to a male subjects leg. The reporting party informed dispatch the injury was from the propeller on their boat. Dispatch advised the caller what to do to help stop the bleeding. Dispatch reported the caller first stated their location was at Flaming Gorge and the accident had happened about ten minutes earlier. The caller found out from the other occupants of the vessel their actual location was Red Fleet State Park. An ambulance was dispatched to the Red Fleet State Park boat ramp.
  
  
  ARRIVAL:
  
  One person was trying to calm subject1 down, subject1 was hysterical. I found the victim laying on the padded area at the rear of his boat. SUBJECT2 was holding his right leg and SUBJECT3 was supporting VICTIM'S head. SUBJECT2 notified me he had applied a tourniquet which had almost completely stopped the bleeding. As I put my gloves on my hands SUBJECT2 requested I get oxygen on VICTIM. 
  
  PATIENT CARE:
  
  With the help of SUBJECT3, I  placed the oxygen mask on VICTIM and I turned on the supply valve and set the oxygen level. I received a phone call from dispatch at this time. They informed me the helicopter was 3-4 minutes out. I informed them the patient needed to be moved right away. I hung up with dispatch and started to assess VICTIMS condition. 
  
  VICTIM was very pale and had become unresponsive to any stimulus. I moved around SUBJECT3 to an open spot on VICTIMS right side. Subject was holding pressure on the wound and elevating the leg. VICTIM stopped breathing for a moment and then started again with very shallow breaths. SUBJECT2 stated he couldn't feel a pulse. I felt for a pulse on his carotid artery, it was present but faint and sporadic. After a second longer of watching for chest movement I noticed the ambulance had arrived on scene. I exited the vessel to go set up a landing zone for the helicopter in our parking lot. As I passed the ambulance staff I informed them the patient was in very critical condition and was not breathing very well. 
  
  PATIENT TRANSPORT:
  
  While waiting for the helicopter to arrive and securing the landing zone. I noticed the ambulance come up the ramp. I later found out the ambulance staff had decided to transport the patient or the patient would not make it. VICTIM was transported to the Ashley Regional Medical Center. VICTIM's condition deteriorated when he got to the hospital. He lost all vital signs and was lifeless, medical staff eventually resuscitated him. Once he was stable enough to transport via helicopter he was transported to the University of Utah Hospital.
  
  OVERVIEW OF ACCIDENT:
  
  After speaking with three of the four occupants of the vessel the similarities with their accounts are as follows. VICTIM was wakeboarding, he fell and determined he was done wakeboarding. When the boat was close enough to VICTIM he grabbed the tow rope and pulled himself towards the vessel. SUBJECT3 failed to put the vessels transmission into neutral or shut the motor off completely. VICTIM 's right leg was struck by the moving propeller causing a deep laceration just above the knee, cutting an artery. Alcohol seems to have played a role in this accident but SUBJECT3 reports she had not drank very much prior to operating the vessel. The preliminary breath test taken approximately one hour after the accident showed a high presence of alcohol. She failed a field sobriety test but had been out of my sight between the time I arrived on scene and when field sobriety tests were conducted. She reported drinking the remainder of the margarita mix out of the boat after the ambulance left with VICTIM. SUBJECT3 was a very inexperienced vessel operator. She stated she knew "how to make the boat go forwards and backwards".