RedactedNarrative: On Monday, May 27, 2019 at approximately 2:30 p.m. on Old Hickory Lake I received a call from dispatch advising me that there had been a boating accident involving a wakeboard boat where an individual was struck by the propeller while wakesurfing and another individual was struck in the head with a surfboard and was knocked unconscious. 
  
  I immediately responded and made contact with the victims and occupants at Bluegrass Marina on Old Hickory Lake in Sumner County at approximately 2:42 p.m. Upon contact the victim who was struck in the head by a surfboard was being treated by EMS on scene and was being prepped for transport to Tristar Hendersonville Hospital. 
  
  The operator/owner, Operator1, and the propeller strike victim were at the dock by the boat. Victim2 had already been treated by EMS and was told that once he had helped Operator1 load the boat he was to go to the hospital to get stitches. 
  
  After compiling the evidence and collecting witness statements. it was determined that Operator1, the operator, was in the process of getting ready to pull Victim2 to wakesurf. As Operator1 was turning the boat to get the tow rope in position for Victim2, Victim2 was right beside the boat in the water with his legs floating upwards under the boat while hanging on to the surf board. 
  
  When Operator1 put the boat in gear the propeller struck Victim2 in his left foot causing deep cuts and lacerations. Victim2 began screaming due to the pain and Operator1 turned the boat off, then all the occupants rushed to Victim2''s aid. 
  
  They drug him up on the swim platform and laid him upon the sundeck at the bow. Operator1 frantically placed the surfboard in the wakeboard rack on the starboard side directly beside the helm without strapping it to secure it. 
  
  Operator1 then turned on the boat and rushed towards the nearest marina for help. The closest marina was Bluegrass Marina. Due to the orientation of their boat in the main channel and being a heavily trafficked holiday weekend the water was choppy due to so many vessels going through. While rushing to Bluegrass Marina, Operator1 was going at a high rate of speed when he hit choppy water, causing the unsecured surfboard to come out of the wakeboard rack, which in turn struck Victim1 in the head, who was seated directly behind the operator, Operator1. 
  
  Victim1 was knocked unconscious and thrown to the floorboard of the vessel. Once they arrived at Bluegrass Marina they were immediately met by Sumner County EMS and Hendersonville Fire.
  
  **Both injured subjects were treated at Tristar Hendersonville Hospital and released.
  
  ***This is Part A of TWRA19OFF000374
  