This story might want to make you think twice about keeping your cell phone in your shirt pocket. A quarry worker was found next to an electric shovel with blood coming from his nose and a cellular phone that appeared to be melted in his front pocket. A professor from Chungbuk National University that examined the body of the dead 33-year-old man hypothesized that the cause of death was none other than an exploding cellular phone battery. The phone in question was an unspecified model from LG and there is no word on which battery maker was responsible for the phone in the accident. The explosion caused extensive internal injuries to the man’s heart and lungs; furthermore he also sustained broken ribs and a broken spine. Hard to believe that a little cell phone battery is capable of causing such incredible damage.
It is important to point out that it has not been determined why this particular battery exploded, still it is the second exploding cell phone story I have heard this week. The other exploded during charging for unspecified reasons. And there was that burning iPod story a while back. Hopefully this is not a trend that is going to continue and investigators will get to the bottom of the cause of this terrible event.
Please not that the phone pictured in the title shot is for conceptual purposes only. It is not the phone that was involved in this tragic accident, it is merely of the same brand. We are as of this time unaware what model was involved.
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Tags: Breaking News, LG, Phones
4 responses
Dec 5, 2007 at 10:21 am
It turns out it was not the battery. Yawn. It was the workmate reversing over him that killed him. Presumably you’ll not manage to spin that out into 200 excitable words but perhaps you could give us 200 words (and a nice photo) on why we should use the term “incident” rather than “accident” when we’re in no position to rule out foul play.
Dec 6, 2007 at 2:51 am
I did a follow up to this story by the way. Your arguments are rather semantic don’t you think?
Dec 9, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Aha, you’re quite right, I apologise; I see the commendably fast follow-up story now. Maybe you could add a link below old stories pointing to updates, to help those of us who arrive at older stories via search engines.
Re. the semantic bit: You did mention in your story that “It is important to point out that it has not been determined why this particular battery exploded”. So, best not jump to the conclusion that it was accidental.
But yes, I suppose it’s true, I was being a bit fussy. I’ve seen much worse uses of accident in print, so apologies once more. Less coffee for me!
Jan 29, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I had a new motorla 205 explod in my house I called them to tell them about the $35000 fire. thay come got the phone took it a part made sure it was there battery .it was . thay sent me a new phone. and thay dont stand behind the fires thay start
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