RedactedNarrative: Prelude:  victim was being pulled in a tube on hamilton lake by operator in a 1997 harris flotedeck boat, registration oh 0542 cx.  Operator stopped the boat and while victim was attempting to get back in the boat she received a laceration to her lower left leg.  She was transported to cameron hospital by ambulance and received stitches for her injury.    
  
  Details of investigation/incident:  on 06-14-15 at approximately 1:46 pm steuben county communications received a call of a boat accident on hamilton lake.  Communications advised a female was struck by the propeller of the boat and the boat and victim were at 140 ln 150d hamilton lake.
    
  I arrived at the scene at approximately 2:20 pm and spoke with hamilton marshall and operator, who advised that he was the driver of the boat.  Operator told me that there were eleven people in the boat and six of them were wearing life jackets.  Operator stated they were tubing in muskrat bay on hamilton lake.  He stated he stopped the boat and put it in neutral to switch tubers.  He stated victim went to get into the boat and the water was choppy.  He then stated she hit her leg on the propeller.  Operator stated he thought the throttle was in neutral but thought the throttle was not working properly because he has put it in neutral before and the propeller was still spinning.  He stated basic first aid and a tourniquet were applied by him and his wife at the scene.  He then drove to the dock at the residence at 140 ln 150d where victim was then transported by squad 5 to cameron hospital.  Operator stated there was no involvement of alcohol and/or drugs.  
   
  Other units at the scene were hamilton police department, hamilton fire department, and steuben county ems-squad 5.
   
  I then went to cameron hospital.  Victim was treated for an approximate 3" laceration to her lower left leg.  Cpl. deem was there and had already spoken with victim and subject.  Subject1 stated that victim told him that she was at the back of the boat on the port side when she was done tubing.  She then realized the ladder was broken and went to the starboard side to climb in the boat and as she was doing this she felt the cut on her leg as she was going by the motor.  Subject1 stated that subject2, who is victim's former stepmom, told him that there were two people on one tube and when they fell off they got separated.  She told him that she thought operator went around to get the other person as victim was climbing up in the boat.  
   
  I asked operator if he was sure the propeller was in motion and if he was sure that it cut victim.  He stated to me that he thought so.  I asked him if the scag could have cut her and he said he did not think so.  Victim only had one laceration on her left leg and straight line scratches before and after the laceration.  This is not consistent with an injury from a propeller that is in motion because there are usually multiple lacerations on the body part due to the propeller spinning.  Operator stated the water was choppy.  In this case, the laceration would be consistent with the boat moving up and down and a piece of metal on the motor or a blade on the propeller making contact with her leg as she swam by and causing the laceration.
   