LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo. — A day on the Lake turned into a nightmare when an Illinois man was seriously injured by a boat propeller on Thursday afternoon.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the incident occurred at around 4:40 p.m. Thirty-five-year-old Justin Breden, of Decatur, Ill., was driving a 2009 Nordic south, around the 6.5 Mile Marker of the Gravois Arm, when 30-year-old Nathan Nielson fell off the back of the boat. 

Nielson, of Taylorville, Ill., was not wearing a life jacket, according to the report. He fell into the boat’s propeller, passed underneath the boat and surfaced on the port side, according to the report.

He was taken by ambulance to Lake Regional Hospital for treatment of serious injuries.

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