Unattended umbrella injures woman on Ocean City beach: Beach Patrol

A woman was injured on the beach in Ocean City Sunday afternoon when an unattended umbrella pierced her skin, according to the beach patrol.

Ocean City Beach Patrol Captain Butch Arbin said the call initially came in at 3:11 p.m. that the wooden pole of an unattended rental umbrella pierced the skin of the upper left chest of a 46-year-old Pennsylvania woman at 54th Street and the beach.

Both lifeguards and other beach patrons secured the umbrella so that it would not continue blowing around, according to Arbin, until firefighters arrived to cut the pole.

He said the woman was then taken by ambulance to a Maryland State Police helicopter that was waiting at a landing site at Jolly Roger Amusement Park. It transported her to Peninsula Regional Medical Center to be treated for injuries that were not life-threatening.

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