One morning this week, our desk had a Chemical Incident to deal with. A dustbin man rang in to say that he and his colleagues had been loading a bin into their truck when an unspecified substance had poured out. It was bubbling and smoking and turning the tarmac green. Their eyes were watering, and they felt sick because of the repugnant smell. Police cars, fire engines and ambuli rushed to the scene. The area was cordoned off. The local hospital closed its A+E minors area so the six patients could be treated without fear of cross-contamination. The Hazardous Area Response Team had a field day.

So there I was, several hours later, thinking what an exciting day I’d had at work, and how for once I’d not spent the whole time dealing with crap, when I settled down to read the newspaper on the train home, when I read the following:

Nappies blamed for chemical alert
A rotting bag of nappies have been blamed for causing a major chemical scare which left six east London binmen hospitalised.

The Redbridge refuge workers were taken ill on Monday morning after a plastic bag they were handling split, releasing a flood of suspicious-smelling liquid, which raised fears of possible toxic poisoning.

Police and firefighters in special protection suits examined the scene in Elgin Road, Seven Kings, for several hours, after the men had been rushed to King George’s Hospital, Ilford, for treatment.

A Redbridge Council spokesman said the scare was caused by fumes emanating from a bag of used nappies which had combined with a quantity of household chemicals.

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