Spillage
The everyday office-bound person sitting in their cubicle in front of a computer may flick their hand accidentally and spill coffee all over the keyboard or their papers.
Today I flicked my hand accidentally (wasn’t really awake…) and spilled genetically modified bacterial waste over my lab book and bench. Spent the next half hour trying to frantically decontaminate everything, shoving my lab book under UV to surface sterilise the thing and spraying ethanol everywhere.
My friend previouly spilled radioactive isotopes over her lab coat. I’ve heard stories of a chemist spilling a precious compound he spent a few months making onto his pants, and ended up decomposing his pants to recover the compound.
Cool huh?