RedactedNarrative: On 5/9/2020 a single vessel accident with an injury occurred in the ICW near Blind Pass in Pinellas County.  A subject on the back of a vessel slipped into the water and was injured on the leg by the vessel's propeller.
  
  OPERATOR stated that he was travelling south through Blind’s Pass. The victim advised OPERATOR that he needed to use the bathroom. OPERATOR stated that to his memory he placed the vessel into neutral and advised he was driving. 
  
  OPERATOR stated that the victim’s hat fell into the water as he was leaning over, the hat fell off the vessels starboard aft corner. OPERATOR placed the vessel into reverse and started maneuvering the vessel toward the victim’s hat while looking over his right shoulder. OPERATOR stated that the victim somehow fell into the water and was struck by the propeller. 
  
  OPERATOR then stated that he might have left the helm and tried reaching for the hat himself when the victim fell overboard. Operator and several other occupants brought the victim back into the vessel and took him to the nearest residence on the water.
  
  Victim sustained deep lacerations to his right leg from his upper thigh down to his calf. He was transported by EMS to Bayfront Hospital Emergency Room where he had emergency surgery to stop bleeding and repair his leg.  Contact with the vessel's propeller caused the damage.
  