RedactedNarrative: On 6-25-2019 at 10:18 am LDWF Agents were alerted about a possible boating incident that had just occurred near Myrtle Grove in Plaquemines Parish LA. The agents responded immediately and also contacted the Plaquemine Parish Sheriff's Dept. (PPSO) Marine Division who were already at Myrtle Grove Marina. The agents were advised that a witness was currently with the injured subject and that PPSO had a vessel in route to their location in McClutchen Bayou.
  
  The agents arrived at Myrtle Grove Marina at 10:48 am and made contact with the subject's brother, Subject1. The agents launched their vessel and began heading in the direction of the incident, accompanied by Subject1 who was going to take charge of the vessel while the operator was being transported to the hospital. The agents arrived on scene with the vessel at approximately 11:00am. PPSO was on scene and advised the injured subject was already being transported by a witness to the incident and a PPSO Deputy to the marina where he would then by transported by EMS to the hospital.
  
  Once on scene the agents observed the subject's vessel (LA 5202 EL) pushed into the marsh along McClutchen Bayou. The observed a track and prop cuts in the marsh where the vessel had run aground. They also saw the vessel's tarp hanging from the bow frame and observed that the weld on the stern frame mounts had snapped. Blood was seen on the starboard deck of the vessel where the subject had fallen. The agents took photographs of the vessel and area. Subject1 then took control of the vessel and the agents followed him back to Myrtle Grove Marina. Agents were then able to make contact with a witness. The agents interviewed him as well as provided witness statements to complete.
  
  The agents then traveled to West Jefferson Medical Center to try and make contact with the subject. Upon arrival they were advised by medical staff that Operator was undergoing medical treatment and was unavailable. The agents then made contact with family members of Operator and gave them the Operator Boating Incident Report paperwork and advised they would be in touch in the coming days after the subject was stabilized.
  
  The agents returned to the hospital on 6-28-2019 and were able to  interview Operator. At this time they were advised Operator had received lacerations on the back of his head, temple, and neck from where the frame had struck him when the weld broke and his subsequent fall onto the deck of the boat. They were also advised that due to the swelling around his spinal column he had the disk between his C3 and C4 vertebrae removed.
  