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.

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