EE was inside the office section of the warehouse when EE encountered a bee and was stung on the left side of the upper chest area. Stinger was removed, first aid sting ointment was applied, drew boundary around wound to monitor. After several minutes, there is a small amount of swelling, but employee appears to show no signs anaphylaxis.
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Showing all 6Employee was working in the scrap yard. Employee was throwing rollers in the scrap yard when a bee landed on EE's back and stung EE.
The bee had traveled into the employee's sleeve while outside, then the employee thought it was fly and tried swatting it out of the sleeve and ended up getting stung twice.
Employee was on their way to the dry plant. While driving; a bee flew into EE's shirt stinging EE in the armpit.
EE was observed acting strange. Another EE went to check on EE and found the injured EE passed out. EE did sit up on own and mentioned was experiencing chest pain and numbness in the arm. Emergency Services was called and EE was taken to emergency room for observation and was diagnosed with a panic attack. This is being treated as a first aid case.
High winds started ladder tipping, ladder was caught by Rail/cattle guards. EE was standing in the vicinity and claimed ladder hit EE's hard Hat as it tipped.