He should have had a pocket protector.

A straphanger riding a northbound D train through Midtown was hospitalized Thursday after a bottle of acidic cleaning fluid he had jammed into his pocket leaked and ate through his clothes — leaving him with severe chemical burns.

The train came to a stop at the 42nd St.—Bryant Park station after the unidentified man burned himself at about 5:30 p.m. — at the height of the evening rush hour.

“It leaked through his pocket (and he got burned),” a Metropolitan Transportation Authority source said Thursday. “They don’t know what he was doing with it. That’s what police will learn when they interview him.”

Paramedics rushed the man — described by witnesses as a contractor or construction worker — to New York Presbyterian—Weill Cornell Medical Center for treatment. His injuries are not believed to be life threatening, an FDNY spokesman said.

More at source: NY DAILY NEWS

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