A 19-year-old lifeguard from New Jersey was hospitalized after she was impaled by her own beach umbrella. NBC News' Julie Tsirkin has more on the incident and talks to Safety Advocate Ed Quigley about how to make beach umbrellas more safe.

A lifeguard is in the hospital after she was impaled by an umbrella at a New Jersey beach on Wednesday morning, officials said.

The victim had been attempting to "control" the umbrella from her lifeguard tower when she fell and became impaled, an official told Nexstar.