WINNIE, Texas (AP) — Authorities say a carnival worker has died after a piece of equipment hit her while she set up for a barbecue cook-off in Chambers County.
The Houston Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/1pfyEjo ) the 30-year-old woman was killed Wednesday at a job site in Winnie Stowell Park. The county sheriff’s office hasn’t released her name.
Authorities say she was struck while removing a transportation brace as the crew was setting up the carnival for this weekend’s Texas Rice Festival Barbecue Cook-off. They say the accident was not related to carnival rides, which hadn’t been assembled.
The woman was transported to an area hospital where she later died.
