RedactedNarrative: After the occupants were back into the vessel from swimming at the sandbar when the operator leaned over on a fishing rod holder to bring up the swim platform ladder when the piece broke under his weight. 
  
  The victim did not fall into the water but received a large laceration on the palm of his hand. The operator's brother drove them all into shore to a waiting ambulance. The victim refused the ambulance to the hospital, his brother took him instead. The victim received 9 stitches to the wound at the hospital.