The 18-year-old college student was standing on top of the lifeguard stand setting up the umbrella Wednesday morning when a gust of wind knocked her and the umbrella down.

A 19-year-old lifeguard impaled by a beach umbrella in Asbury Park is set to be released from the hospital Thursday and hopes to return to work soon, according to her supervisor.

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 ...

When Alex grabbed the umbrella, she was pulled backward, lost her balance and fell off the stand. The umbrella landed on top of her and went through her upper arm and came out her upper back.

Emergency workers carry Alex to an ambulance after she was impaled by the beach umbrella. Photo courtesy of ABC-7 The beach supervisor said if the 18-year-old was in pain, nobody noticed.