Jurubicara BASF menyatakan karyawan di tempat itu dibawa ke rumahsakit setelah kebocoran hexamethylene diamine, bahan kimia untuk membuat akrilik dan serat nilon dan plastik di pabrik di Seal Sands, dekat Middlesbrough, Inggris utara.
A BASF spokesman said workers on the site were admitted to hospital after a leak of hexamethylene diamine, a chemical used in the production of acrylic and nylon fibres and plastics at a plant in Seal Sands near Middlesbrough, northern England.