RedactedNarrative: ON 07/04/2021 AT APPROXIMATELY 1643 HOURS, A BOATING INCIDENT OCCURRED IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY ON LAKE NORMAN. THE INCIDENT OCCURRED AT THE SANDBAR IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY NEAR BETHEL CHURCH RD. THE ONLY VESSEL INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT WAS A 22-FOOT 6-INCH, 2005 CORRECT CRAFT AIR NAUTIQUE FIBERGLASS OPEN MOTORBOAT WITH ONE, 375 HORSEPOWER INBOARD ENGINE. THE VESSEL WAS OWNED BY OWNER. THE VESSEL WAS BEING OPERATED AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT BY OPERATOR.
  
  ACCORDING TO STATEMENTS MADE BY THE PARTIES INVOLVED, OPERATOR WAS OPERATING THE VESSEL AND TOOK APPROXIMATELY 7 PEOPLE TO THE SANDBAR ON LAKE NORMAN. AT APPROXIMATELY 1630 HOURS, OPERATOR ATTEMPTED TO GATHER HIS PARTY INTO THE VESSEL TO EXIT THE SANDBAR. OPERATOR STATED THAT THEY WERE ANCHORED ALONE, AND THE VESSEL THAT WAS TIED OFF TO THEM HAD ALREADY DEPARTED. OPERATOR STATED THAT INJURED WAS ASLEEP IN THE FRONT OF THE VESSEL AND WHEN OPERATOR PULLED UP THE ANCHOR, INJURED WOULD NOT MOVE. OPERATOR SET THE ANCHOR NEXT TO THE DRIVERS SEAT AND BEGAN TO MANEUVER AWAY FROM THE SANDBAR. 
  
  OPERATOR'S VESSEL WAS FLOATING AFTER PULLING THE ANCHOR, AND A PERSONAL WATER-CRAFT (PWC) WAS DOING CIRCLES IN FRONT OF HIS VESSEL. OPERATOR STATED THAT THE WAKE FROM THE PWC WAS SLOWLY PUSHING HIM INTO THE OTHER BOATS THAT WERE TIED UP AT THE SANDBAR. DURING THIS TIME, INJURED GOT UP FROM THE FRONT OF THE VESSEL AND WALKED TO THE STERN WHILE SAYING THAT HE HAD TO USE THE RESTROOM. OPERATOR TOLD INJURED TO WAIT TO USE THE RESTROOM. INJURED ENTERED THE WATER AND WAS HOLDING HIMSELF ON THE SWIM DECK AT THE STERN OF THE VESSEL. OPERATOR PULLED THE THROTTLE BACK TO PUT THE VESSEL IN REVERSE TO AVOID HITTING ANOTHER BOAT DUE TO THE PWC WAKE. OPERATOR IMMEDIATELY RETURNED THE THROTTLE TO NEUTRAL BUT INJURED'S FOOT AND LEG WERE STRUCK BY THE PROP. OPERATOR WAS UNAWARE THAT INJURED GOT INTO THE WATER, THINKING THAT INJURED HAD TAKEN A SEAT IN THE REAR SEATS OF THE VESSEL. INJURED BEGAN TO CALL FOR HELP. OPERATOR AND HIS BROTHER, PASSENGER 2, WERE ABLE TO PULL INJURED INTO THE BOAT. THEY WRAPPED INJURED'S RIGHT LEG IN A TOWEL, CALLED 9-1-1, AND BEGAN NAVIGATING BACK TO HOLIDAY MARINA. 
  
  CORNELIUS FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS ASSIGNED AT 1645 HOURS AND ARRIVED ON SCENE AT HOLIDAY MARINA AT 1649 HOURS. EMS ARRIVED ON SCENE AT 1657 HOURS TO TRANSPORT INJURED TO CMC MAIN. NORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ARRIVED ON SCENE AT APPROXIMATELY 1645 HOURS AS PASSENGER 2 WAS OPERATING THE VESSEL AWAY FROM THE SANDBAR AND BACK TO HOLIDAY MARINA. 
  
  INJURED SUSTAINED MULTIPLE SERIOUS INJURIES INCLUDING MULTIPLE BONE FRACTURES IN HIS RIGHT FOOT, A BROKEN TIBIA, BROKEN FIBULA, AND LACERATIONS WITH TEARS TO MULTIPLE LIGAMENTS IN HIS LOWER LEG. ACCORDING TO WITNESSES, INJURED WAS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL. ALCOHOL NOR DRUGS WERE A FACTOR WITH THE OPERATOR, AND NO ONE WAS CHARGED AS A RESULT OF THE INCIDENT.