RedactedNarrative: On Thursday June 28, 2018, operator, his wife, and their son went for a boat ride on Mayo Lake.  They were across from the Triple Springs Boating Access area enjoying the evening.  They went to restart the motor after they had been drifting in an area for a while.  The motor would not crank and Operator thought that the battery had died. He took the top of the motor off so that he could try to pull start it.   He tried it a few times and it would not start, so he told his wife to choke it a little and when he went to pull it again, the motor was in gear.  
  
  When it fired up, the boat lunged forward and threw him up against the top of the motor and into the water.  He fell on top of the flywheel and it tore some skin off of his right pectoral area on his chest.  He then fell into the water and both his feet hit the propeller.  
  
  He ended up with scratches on his chest, a small cut on his right foot, a few large lacerations on his left foot, several broken bones in his left foot, and a small cut on his right forearm.  
  
  His wife was able to turn the boat around and get back to him.   He was screaming for her to turn the motor off.  She turned off the motor and helped him get into the boat, but they were stranded again until they were able to get someone on a PWC to pull them to the dock after she had called 911.   EMS came to the dock and carried Operator to Duke Hospital.  
  
  Operator had surgery on his foot where they reconnected the tendons that were cut from the bone in his foot. He was released on 07/02/2018.
  
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