RedactedNarrative: On June 13, 2015, at approximately 17:45 hrs, a 14' Weldcraft flatboat, bearing LA registration LA 1080 FX was involved in a boating incident on the Bogue Chitto River near Sun Louisiana resulting in one injury. The vessel was on plane near Five Lakes Campground and traveling downriver toward the village of Sun. At some point, the lower unit of the vessel's tiller arm operated 25 hp Suzuki outboard motor struck a partially submerged log, causing the outboard to become unattached from the flatboat's transom mount. The thrust from the impact sent the outboard over the transom and into the vessel, striking operator on the left side of his head(scalp area) and causing lacerations. operator was then placed in a private vehicle and transported to the St Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington, where he was treated for lacerations to his scalp(staples) and released.
   
  PFDs were properly used in this incident and the outboard's cutoff lanyard was attached to the operator at the time of the incident. Alcohol use was not believed to be a contributing factor in this incident. This section of the Bogue Chitto River has numerous submerged stumps, logs and other debris, making it a very hazardous area in which to operate a vessel.
  
   