RedactedNarrative: On the 19th of June 2021 I was notified that a boating accident had occurred on the 14th of June 2021 and that an individual had been injured. I followed up with the hospital and confirmed that on the 14th an individual had been brought to the Rhea County Hospital with multiple lacerations to his leg from a boat propeller. 
  
  	According to statements made by the operator, injured occupant and witnesses while boating on the chickamauga lake in the Mud Creek area the Operator was pulling up to the bank to retrieve a float. Subject1 jumped off  the front of the vessel to retrieve the float and placed it back on the vessel. 
  
  	Operator stated that the vessel was being blown into the bank and Subject1 so he placed the vessel into reverse to keep the vessel off of Subject1 and the bank. When Operator shifted the vessel into reverse he heard what he described as the boat striking something with the propeller and immediately shut off the boat and started looking for Subject1. 
  
  	Subject1 was found at the stern of the vessel at the swim platform trying to reboard the vessel. When the vessel was placed into reverse the propeller made contact with his legs causing multiple lacerations that required medical attention. 
  
  	Statements from witnesses indicated  that Subject1 did not communicate with the operator (Operator) before he made his way down the left side of the vessel out of the operators view and to the back of vessel. Statements also were made that Operator thought that Subject1 was still in front of the vessel when he placed it in reverse to keep the vessel off the rocks of the bank and off of Subject1. 
  
  	Once Operator realized that Subject1 had been struck by the propeller he headed straight back to the boat ramp where him and the other occupants of the vessel assisted Subject1 into a personal vehicle and transported him to the Rhea Medical Center.
  