RedactedNarrative: The victim voluntarily left the vessel, in order to comfort her children, who had just been thrown from a tube that they were pulling. 
  
   As she was returning to the vessel, and reaching for the swim ladder, her left thigh contacted the still moving propeller.  The operator stated several times that he had put the vessel in neutral, but had "not turned off the key, to stop the motor".  The propeller caused two lacerations, each requiring a number of staples.