RedactedNarrative: At approximately 1048 on Friday, 19 june 2020, Rich County Sheriff's Office Dispatch received a report of a "man with his leg stuck in a motor" at the state park marina. When I was notified of the incident, I was in my patrol truck roughly 1.5 miles south of the marina. Believing this to be a “prop-chop" incident, I activated my overhead lights and sirens during my response.
  
  Upon arriving at the marina (1054 hours), I discovered that the accident had not actually occured in the marina and that the boat involved was on its way to the marina. Several minutes later I saw a boat coming into the marina at a higher-than-normal speed. I directed the boat to the east end of the north courtesy dock. The women operating the boat (later identified as Operator) seemed to be having difficulty driving the boat and initially overshot the dock. I had to have her put the boat in reverse until the boat was close enough for me to grab at which point I had her turn off the engines. Two men (names unknown) who were on the dock helped by tying the stern of the boat to the dock and manually holding the bow alongside the dock. I relayed out location to dispatch and asked them to have the ambulance respond to that dock.
  
  In addition to Operator, there were five other people in the boat. Injured (Operator's husband) was laying face down on the back bench seat of the boat. The other four were their grandchildren -- Passenger5, Passenger4, Passenger3, and Passenger2 (all siblings). There was a beach towel on the back of Injured's left leg and one of his granddaughters was sitting on it to apply pressure.
  
  I had everyone but Injured get off the boat. I then checked the wound. There was a large (6-8") gash across the back of Injured's upper leg. It appeared to be 0.5 to 1 inches deep and had separated in the middle by about an inch. There were segments of what appeared to be fat laying along the edge of the wound. There was very little blood.
  
  Injured was very calm and coherent. Injured stated he could get off the boat and walk to the ambulance. I directed him to remain where he was and we would let the ambulance crew come to him.
  
  I asked Injured what had happened. He said that after riding a tube with his grandson he had stepped from the tube onto the swim deck of the boat and then slipped off the back of the boat and been hit by the propeller. I asked Injured if the motor was in gear at the time. He said it was idling. He also said that he had been "sucked under the boat" when he slipped which makes it seem likely that the boat was actually in reverse.
  
  EMS personnel arrived and assessed the wound. They applied gauze pads then wrapped Injured’s leg with gauze. With minimal assistance from me and the EMS people, Injured was able to walk off of the boat to the gurney which was on the dock.
  
  I asked Ranger 2 to collect the information for the people on the boat. He did and that information is included in this report.
  
  I spoke with Operator about the incident. Her description essentially matched Injured's except that she said that he had been explaining to her how to put the boat in neutral (Operator had repeatedly said she didn't know how to operate a boat) and she believed she may have inadvertently put the boat into reverse.
  
  The boat (a 2018 Four Winns rented from BLH Enterprises -- the concessionaire in the marina) was not damaged. Ranger 2 and I helped Operator and her grandchildren gather their belongings from the boat and then helped them carry the items to the end of the dock. Ranger 2 then had someone from the gatehouse staff contact the concessionaire and have an employee sent to pick up the boat which was done. I told the employee sent to pick up the boat about the blood (and there was surprisingly little) and I later saw another employee sanitizing the boat.
  
  When they had arrived at the marina, Operator and the grandchildren were noticeably upset. Ranger 2 and I spent quite a bit of time visiting with them while Injured was being treated in the ambulance and let them know that the injury did not appear to be serious which seemed to help them calm down.
  
  Injured was transported by ambulance to Logan Regional Hospital. We provided Operator with directions to the hospital.
  
  On Saturday, 20 June 2020, I contacted Injured by phone to see how he was doing. He told me that his leg hurt but that there was no significant damage.
  
  Unless additional information becomes available, this incident will be closed.