{"id":348665,"date":"2026-01-02T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348665\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:51:10","slug":"isle-of-wight-beekeeper-died-from-sting-while-not-wearing-protective-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/348665\/","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Wight beekeeper died from sting while not wearing protective hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An amateur beekeeper died of anaphylactic shock after a sting when he was not wearing a protective hat, according to a coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Senior coroner Caroline Sumeray said Alan Ransom, of Godshill on the Isle of Wight, died in May 2024 at the island&#8217;s St Mary&#8217;s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Sumeray ruled that the 55-year-old, born in Epsom, Surrey, died after &#8220;developing an anaphylactic reaction to a bee sting on his left ear, after he failed to wear a beekeeper&#8217;s hat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She recorded a conclusion of misadventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An amateur beekeeper died of anaphylactic shock after a sting when he was not wearing a protective hat,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-348665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}