U.S. Detailed Incident Statistics
These records are an actual documented sample from the much larger U.S. bee-injury data sets. They are used to show the real-world details behind individual reports: what happened, where it happened, who or what was affected, the trigger, severity, response, and available source documentation.
This current cumulative estimate extends the published national bee-specific annual average through the latest completed calendar year. It does not come with public case files that can be plotted or reconstructed one by one.
The detailed records below are the individual incidents Honey Bee Awareness has been able to reconstruct from public sources with enough information to show what happened, where it happened, the outcome, and the response.
The underlying national study covered nonfatal, unintentional, non-work-related ER cases only. It does not include fatal cases, work-related cases, or incidents that never resulted in ER treatment. See the national U.S. bee-injury data and calculation.
United States Detailed Records by State
These are case-level records selected for documentation and pattern analysis. They are not a count of every bee incident in each state.
What Was Happening When the Incident Began
Includes incident records with a reported activity or setting. Records where the source did not state the activity are not included in this list.
Incident Outcomes
Each record is counted once according to its most serious documented outcome.
Detailed U.S. Incident Records
Showing 1–2 of 2 matching records. Total detailed case records in working CSV: 328. Click a column heading to sort the current results.
| Date ▼ | State / Territory / Area | Trigger | Outcome | Bee Identification | Headline / Summary | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-27 |
PR Naguabo / Wooded area near power line poles, Naguabo, Puerto Rico |
Utility / Public Works | Human Death | Honey Bees — Genetics Not Established |
Power-line repair worker fatally stung by bees hidden near utility poles; crew had identified bee risk but skipped protective suits due to heat-stress concerns Four Luma Energy employees were repairing a damaged power line in a wooded area; a hazard assessment had already flagged bee activity near the poles, but the crew chose to work from the ground without bee suits, citing heat-stress risk over sting risk. One worker, left behind briefly to manage a fallen cable, was swarmed. His coworkers found him on the ground covered in bees but could not administer first aid because their bee suits were in the work vehicle, not on their persons. |
OSHA (U.S. Dept. of Labor)
A - Official / Government |
| 1998-05-18 |
PR Rincon / Rincón / Carr PR 4412 Bo. Jagüey |
Farm / Ranch / Field Work | Human Death | Honey Bees — Genetics Not Established |
Earth-mover operator clearing path at farm lot disturbed hidden hive; swarm pursued and killed him OSHA reported that an employee using a D-6 earth mover to clear a path at a farm lot disturbed a hive hidden in shrubs; bees pursued him about 100 meters and he died of multiple stings. |
OSHA
A - Official / Government |