RedactedNarrative: On 6/7/17, at approximately 16:20 hours, S.A. was notified of a boating incident with injuries by a Chitimachain volunteer fireman. The incident occurred along the Charenton Drainage Canal located in St. Mary Parish. The fireman advised that the operator was currently at his camp with a possible broken femur. 
  
  At that time Senior agent responded to the scene and located the vessel. Chitimacha Fire Protection personnel were on scene and tending to the injured operator. Senior agent learned that Operator was operating his 13' aluminum vessel, powered by a tiller handle outboard along the Charenton Drainage Canal when he decided to drain water from his vessel by removing the drain plug while underway. 
  
  The operator was steering the vessel with his left hand until he pulled the drain plug and switched to steering with his right hand. While removing the drain plug the vessel slowly veered to starboard, towards the bank. The vessel's starboard side bow impacted a tree. The impact caused Operator to be thrown from the bench seat onto the deck of the vessel. 
  
  When Operator was thrown his right leg struck the forward bow deck causing a break to his femur. The motor died at the time of the incident, but Operator was not wearing the required kill switch lanyard, the vessel started taking on water through the drain hole when the vessel stopped forward movement. The operator managed to re-start the motor and travel to his nearby camp where his wife tied the vessel to the dock. Once the vessel was secured to the dock, a nearby fishermen assisted by placing the drain plug back into the drain hole and then he started bailing the water out by hand. EMS arrived a short time later a rendered aid to Operator. Operator was then transported to Lafayette General by Air Med. The operator was not wearing a PFD or a kill switch lanyard. Senior agent does not suspect drugs or alcohol to be contributing factors in this incident.
  