Man dies after being stung by wasps while working on home

Friday, June 22, 2018
WAKE COUNTY, North Carolina -- A contractor who was stung by wasps on Monday while working on a home in Wake County, North Carolina, has died.

The man suffered an allergic reaction, which sent him into cardiac arrest, according to the man who owns the home.
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"He instantly went into shock, passed out, heart stopped," Kevin Gahn said. "The next thing I knew, there was EMTs, police everywhere down here. They worked on him for 45 minutes, I guess, doing chest compression because he had no pulse."


Gahn said the contractor was working with his son-in-law at the time.

He said the two had torn out some floorboards on one section of the deck when they moved to the stairs leading to a porch.

Apparently, there was a nest under the porch.

The man in the foreground (royal blue shirt) is seen working on the deck before the yellow-jacket attack.

Courtesy of Kevin Gahn


Gahn said the son-in-law told him the man was only stung twice but quickly passed out.
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Paramedics immediately gave the man an injection, but with his heart stopped, it wasn't circulating in his system.
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