RedactedNarrative: On 8/20/16 S.A. received information of a boat incident that had occurred in the Atchafalaya Basin located in St. Mary Parish. Agents learned that it was a single vessel incident with one occupant. The vessel was a 19.5 foot aluminum skiff powered by a 35 HP, tiller handle, Gatortail surface drive. The operator was traveling North in Union Oil Canal #2 on the Attakapas WMA. 
  
  Operator was cruising on plain and pulled the drain plug in order to drain water from the vessel. Operator' vessel made an abrupt turn to starboard and struck a tree. Clement was ejected out of the vessel as a result of striking the tree. Operator was not wearing a PFD nor a kill switch lanyard at the time of the incident. Operator was brought to Franklin Foundation Hospital where it was learned he had 4 broken ribs on his right side and 4 fractured vertebrae in the lumbar section of his spine. Agents do not suspect the use of drugs or alcohol to be contributing factors.