FOND DU LAC COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Officials say a child was seriously hurt after he fell onto a boat propeller on Lake Winnebago over the weekend.
Crews were called to the Columbia Park boat landing in Fond du Lac County just after noon on Sunday for a 11-year-old boy who sustained injuries to his legs.
Fond du Lac County deputies say the child was trying to climb into the boat after tubing, when he fell off the ladder and onto the propeller of the vessel.
The driver of the boat, a 30-year-old New Holstein man, along with four of his children, were on the boat at the time.
The victim is the boat operator’s nephew.
One of the children realized the boy needed help, so she along with another individual from a nearby vessel, jumped into the water to get the boy onto the boat.
The child was flown to Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee for treatment of his injuries.
