A United States postal worker was stripped of his uniform and carted off to the hospital Tuesday after a white powder leaked from an envelope onto his hands.
Shortly after 4 p.m., the worker was sorting mail in his truck on Eustis Street, near Porter Square, when the powder fell from a Ft. Worth, Texas-postmarked envelope.
Postal officials contacted the Cambridge Fire and Police departments, who responded to the worker on the street, washed his hands, outfitted him in a Tyvec suit and transported him to Massachusetts General Hospital for decontamination, said spokesman Robert Cannon.
The letter, which Cannon said contained "pornographic wording," was taken to a Department of Public Health lab in Jamaica Plain. As of the Chronicle's deadline Wednesday, the powder's test results weren't available, but Cannon said he doesn't believe it's anything harmful. The worker's mail truck was also towed to a lot where it will be quarantined until the test results are in.
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