Freak umbrella accident leaves lifeguard impaled in beach day horror

A formation day turned into a country consecutive retired of a fearfulness movie for a lifeguard aft she was impaled by an umbrella.

The incidental happened Wednesday greeting astatine Asbury Park’s 3rd Avenue Beach, wherever archetypal responders were called to the Jersey Shore for reports a young pistillate was trapped by a formation umbrella.

Fellow lifeguards recovered the young pistillate lying connected the crushed adjacent the lifeguard basal with an umbrella involvement done her near enarthrosis and sticking retired the backmost of her limb by astir a foot, Asbury Park Fire Chief Kevin Keddy told Fox News Digital. 

Keddy said archetypal responders chopped the umbrella involvement disconnected to marque it easier to transport the unfortunate to a hospital. 

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People bask the formation Memorial Day play May 26, 2019, successful Asbury Park, N.J. (Kena Betancur/Getty Images)

Paramedics transported the victim, who was alert and conscious the full time, to a section hospital, Keddy said.

"I volition accidental pugnacious is simply a bully connection to usage to picture her," Keddy said. 

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While her information was unknown, Keddy said she seemed to beryllium doing OK erstwhile she was taken to the hospital. 

It was not known what caused the umbrella to impale the lifeguard, but Keddy recommended making definite umbrella stakes are securely placed successful the sand.

According to a 2024 report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, airborne formation umbrella incidents person go "too common" successful caller years.

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People sojourn the formation Memorial Day play May 28, 2023, successful Asbury Park, N.J. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

The committee stated that formation umbrellas that person been sent airborne by upwind gusts person "killed radical and caused galore superior injuries." 

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The committee besides shared tips for consumers to support themselves, similar ever making definite umbrellas are anchored decently and to be alert for precocious upwind gusts.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Asbury Park Beach bureau for remark but did not instantly person a response. 

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