With summer in full swing and crowds flocking to the beach, beachgoers are reminded to take extra precautions when using beach umbrellas after reports of injuries caused by wind-blown umbrellas.

A life guard station on the beach during Memorial Day weekend on May 26, 2019 in Asbury Park, N.J. John Bongiovanni, an Asbury Park beach safety supervisor, told the Asbury Park Press that lifeguards ...

A beach umbrella turned dangerous in Asbury Park on Wednesday morning when strong winds sent it airborne, impaling a lifeguard as she set it up. The metal stake pierced through her shoulder and out ...

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A gust of wind uprooted a 6-foot beach umbrella that flew through the air and impaled a woman's leg on Alabama's Gulf Coast this week. The horrific injury, which happened about 48 hours before ...

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A woman on Orange Beach Monday morning was impaled by a wind-blown beach umbrella, according to the Orange Beach Fire Department. First responders were dispatched to an area of beach in the 2300 block ...

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- As a mother was filming her 21-month-old playing on the beach, a gust of wind brought the sharp tip of a beach umbrella within inches of her son. "A flying umbrella almost ...

"She's a tough young woman,” said Asbury Park Fire Department Chief Kevin Keddy Kena Betancur/Getty Officials said that a beach umbrella impaled a New Jersey lifeguard on June 25 “It was protruding by ...