Asbury Park Lifeguard Returns After Near-Fatal Umbrella Accident

🏖 Alex Kaus was impaled through the shoulder June 25
🏖 She has returned to duty in Asbury Park
🏖 Kaus says she has no fear of another accident

The 18-year-old lifeguard who was impaled through the shoulder during a freak accident in Asbury Park is back on the job.

It was on June 25 when Kaus climbed up to her lifeguard stand and was trying to secure the umbrella that was already perched over her bench. Kaus told the Asbury Park Press the rope that was attached to the umbrella was too short.

A gust of wind uprooted the umbrella and “it pulled me off with it,” she said.

Kaus landed on the umbrella, which went right through her body beneath the shoulder and out her armpit. The umbrella missed her vital organs, but was just centimeters from a major artery. If that artery had been…