RedactedNarrative: On 05 September 2016, at 1646 hours I received a call from DNR Communications that the Emergency Room at Garrett Regional Medical Center (GRMC) was treating a boat accident patient.  The accident occurred on Deep Creek Lake, Garrett County, MD.  I arrived at the Emergency Room to find that the patient had already been released.  I was given a name and phone number to follow up on.  
  
       I contacted the party and discovered that the patients name.  Victim was also the operator of the single vessel involved in the accident.  I met Victim at their residence on Deep Creek Lake.  Victim advised that he and his wife were on Deep Creek Lake around 1445 hours on 05 September 2016.  They were trying to locate a group of friends on another vessel.  They were in the Red Run Cove Area but could not locate their friends.  They left Red Run Cove and began to travel on the main body of the lake toward the dam.  The vessel was struck from the side by a wake.  The vessel then pitched forward and to the starboard side.  Victim had been operating the vessel from a standing position to improve his ability to maintain a better lookout.  Victim lost his footing and fell forward and down to the floor.  During his fall his face struck the console.  This caused lacerations to his forehead near his nose and right eye.  His wife was sitting in the passenger seat to the left of the operator.  She took control of the vessel and stopped it. She then helped her husband to his feet and into a seat.  
  
       His wife transported her husband to GRMC for treatment. He received 11 stitches to close the lacerations.  I inspected the vessel.  It was a 21' Four Winns open bow motorboat. MD Registration 2325 CF.  All was found  to be in order with the vessel.  I detected no violations.  
  Scene Clear at 1815 hours
  