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Article: SA: Fifty bee stings killed chimney sweep: coroner
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- January 30, 2004
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AAP General News (Australia)
01-30-2004
SA: Fifty bee stings killed chimney sweep: coroner
ADELAIDE, Jan 30 AAP - A chimney sweep died within minutes of suffering 40 or 50 bee
stings, the South Australian coroner found today.
Detailing the horrific death of Gary Woodcock, 36, in January 2001, coroner Wayne Chivell
said the man suffered a severe anaphylactic reaction.
Mr Woodcock had been hired by St Peter's College in Adelaide to remove a combustion
heater and flue from one of the school buildings.
But when he first inspected the job he noticed some bees and told the school he would
not continue until the insects had been killed.
A pest exterminator was called and used a smoke ...
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