RedactedNarrative: Operator stated that he was operating the boat upstream at the confluence of the DesPlains and Kankakee rivers, where the Illinois river is formed, when he hit a wave that caused his daughter to be thrown from the boat over the starboard side.  Subject was sitting just in front of the driver''s console on the starboard side, with her back against the console and windshield.  When Subject went overboard, her right inner upper thigh got caught on the cleat causing a six inch laceration.  She was brought back to the dock at dock at the DesPlains Conservation Area and then transported to Morris Hospital by a Wilmington Fire Dept. ambulance.  Subject was treated and released that evening.
  
  
  