OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #606814
ALLERGIC REACTION,BEE STING
Event description
EMPLOYEE DIED OF ALLERGIC REACTION FROM BEE STING
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 3 PM ON JULY 6, 1987, EMPLOYEE #1 REPORTED TO HIS FOREMAN THAT, WHILE TRIMMING THE RIGHT OF WAY, HE PERHAPS HAD BEEN STUNG BY A SCORPION. HE SA ID THAT THE STING FELT ITCHY BUT DID NOT HURT. ABOUT FOUR FORTY HE TOLD HIS FORE MAN THAT HE HAD JUST BEEN STUNG BY A YELLOW JACKET. ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LATER, TH E FOREMAN NOTICED A PURPLE COLOR AND SWELLING LIPS ON EMPLOYEE NUMBER ONE. THE E MPLOYEE WAS TAKEN TO A DOCTOR LOCATED ABOUT TWO AND SEVEN TENTHS MILES AWAY AS Q UICKLY AS POSSIBLE. THE DOCTOR WORKED ON EMPLOYEE #1 UNTIL AN AMBULANCE TOOK HIM TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS DOA.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 3
- Source
- 3
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 2
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