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.

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