Acid spill leaves Scottish dump workers injured

Nine workers at a landfill site have been taken to hospital after a container of nitric acid overturned.

Ambulances took the nine people away from the scene of the spilled 10-litre container, although none of their injuries are said to be life-threatening.

Emergency services were called to the landfill site in Wellwood, just outside Dunfermline, Fife, at around midday.

A Scottish Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: “We sent two ambulances and a specialist operations team. We conveyed nine people to hospital.”