A Pine Beach teenager was hospitalized Tuesday after he was impaled during a track-and-field javelin throw at the field outside Donovan Catholic High School in Toms River.

According to Jillian Messina, a spokeswoman with the Toms River Police Department, officers were directed to an open field near the track-and-field training area where they found an injured 16-year-old boy.

The teen, who is from Pine Beach, had suffered an injury from a “javelin impaled in his right thigh,” Messina said in an email.

“The javelin was impaled several inches into his thigh; however, there was no visible bleeding, and the victim was conscious and having a conversation with first-responders,” according to Messina.