Bee swarm sends man to hospital

BASTROP COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) - A construction worker was stung "several hundred times" after being swarmed by bees during a project in eastern Bastrop County on Monday, authorities said.

According to the Bastrop County Sheriff’s Department, two private construction workers were bulldozing trees on Old Potato Road when they disturbed a beehive.

One man was stung a few times, but the other -- identified as Casey Allan -- was stung several hundred times and he is allergic to bees, authorities said. Allan was starflighted to University Medical Center Brackenridge.

Allan remains in the emergency department at Brackenridge and is listed in fair condition, officials say.

The Bastrop Sheriff’s Office, the Bastrop volunteer Fire Department, Guardian EMS and Starflight responded to the scene. Allen was starflighted to Brackenridge Hospital. They are not aware of his condition on Monday afternoon.