OCEAN CITY, Md. — A spokeswoman for a Maryland beach town said a woman was accidentally impaled in the chest by a beach umbrella.

Ocean City spokeswoman Jessica Waters said it happened Sunday afternoon on the beach. She said the 54-year-old woman was conscious, but that her condition was not known.

Waters said a Maryland State Police helicopter took the woman for medical care. Her name wasn’t immediately released.

Last week, a woman was impaled by a beach umbrella on the Jersey Shore. Authorities said part of the umbrella pierced the woman’s ankle after being driven by the force of the wind.