RedactedNarrative: On 9/6/2020 at approximately 1900 I, Officer of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was dispatched to a boating accident that occurred at Cherry Lake in Madison County Florida. At approximately 1830 operator of vessel (FL5438PB) Operator1 along with two of his friends were recreationally cruising on Cherry Lake. 
  
  At approximately 1845 Operator1 decided to head in and dock his boat due to a bad storm that had come in. Due to the high winds Operator1 advised it was difficult to align the vessel with the dock. Subject1 tried to assist Operator1 by tying off a line to the dock cleat, but when she did her finger got stuck between the line and the cleat. The boat then shifted causing damage to Subject1s right index finger. 
  
  Subject2 then drove Subject1 to Madison County Memorial Hospital. Subject1 expressed her concern with saving her finger to the staff at Madison Memorial. The head nurse advised Subject1 to go to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in Tallahassee. 
  
       When I spoke with (Victim) she advised: “On September 6, 2020, I was boating with my husband and longtime friend on Cherry Lake at approximately 7:15 p.m. The weather appeared to decline. It became windy and rain was approaching. Operator1 was operating the vessel and pulled up to the dock. I went to the rear of the boat to tie the stern rope to the dock cleat. While I was pulling slack in the rope making my knot on the cleat, the bow on the boat began to swing away from the dock. Operator1 put the boat engine in drive before I could finish, and the rope cinched tight crushing my right-hand index finger in the knot. I received a bad laceration to my right index finger. My husband took me to Madison Memorial. When I voiced my concern about saving my finger, they advised me that I needed to go to TMH (Tallahassee Memorial Hospital) in Tallahassee, FL. “
  
       When I spoke with Operator1 (Operator/Owner) he advised: “The vessel is a 2010 regal 2500 and all systems operate as they are intended. My wife and I had rented a house for the Labor Day weekend on Cherry Lake in Madison County Florida and had invited subjects. We had gone on a ride around the lake. Upon returning as I approached the dock I did not have the bow in the correct position for docking and Subject2 was unable to reach the bow line. However, subject1 was able to reach the stern line but by that time the bow had drifted further from the dock. As she was placing the line around the cleat, I bumped the engine into gear then back to neutral to swing the bow around back to the dock. As the line came tight around the cleat it caught her finger between the line and the cleat with enough force to rupture the end of her finger Requiring subject2 to have to carry her to the hospital to have it sewn up. There was no damage to the boat or dock.”
  
       When I spoke with Occupant he advised: “He was staying with a friend off Cherry Lake. While cruising on the lake a bad storm came in. Operator1 tried to dock his boat but due to the strong winds it was difficult. My wife tried to tie off the vessel to the cleat on the dock. Her right index finger got caught in between the rope and the cleat. The boat then shifted causing injury to her finger.”
  	
  
  