Melting Pyjamas

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Get me to hospital, my pyjamas are melting
Nicola Stow

MELTING pyjamas and a brush with an alligator were among accidents which put almost a million Britons in hospital last year, figures revealed today.

A host of bizarre incidents were littered in the statistics of accident and emergency admissions unveiled by the Government.
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Acts of nature were not thought to be involved in the 22 incidents involving the "ignition or melting of nightwear", with stray cigarettes and faulty electric blankets likely to blame.
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Meanwhile, it emerged today a Czech tractor driver died under eight tons of manure in a bizarre accident that has baffled his employers.

The 34-year old man, identified only as Martin T, suffocated after the load fell on him while he was dumping it in a field near the western Czech city of Karlovy Vary.

"It absolutely beats me how this could happen," said Vladimir Erps, chief of the company employing the victim.

"The truck is operated from the tractor cabin, using hydraulics. There was nothing for him to do under the truck, but it�s tough to blame him now that he is dead."

Posted on March 29, 2005 at 12.58 by jns · Permalink
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