An Australian man recently left with painful burns to his right thigh after his Apple iPhone 6 “exploded” in his pocket.
Gareth Clear, 36, reportedly an Australian management consultant, was out cycling on Sunday afternoon near Sydney, Australia, when he fell from his bike, landing on his iPhone 6, which was in his back pocket. He suffered severe burn injuries on his upper right thigh when his iPhone 6 in his back pocket exploded, melting both his shorts and two layers of skin in the process.
“The phone was stuck to my leg having melted through both my shorts and my Skins. It had to have been more than 100 degrees,” The Daily Telegraph reported Mr. Clear as saying.
He punched the phone to dislodge it from his leg – at which point it emitted what he described as a “metallic bang.”
The injury is said to be serious that Clear had to undergo skin graft at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney to cure his burns. And while the back of the iPhone was completely damaged with the “metal bending and all the lithium leaking out of the bottom end”, the upper half remained “perfectly intact”.
Mr. Clear described his phone as a “mini-bomb”, adding, “Every iPhone is the same – if it happens to one, it will happen to another one. I was just lucky I was wearing pretty thick clothing and it was on my lower body. It could hurt someone else much more than it did me.”
Meanwhile Clear posted the following warning on Twitter, in which, he included Tim Cook – the current CEO of apple INC and it’s news division:
@tim_cook @AppleNewsAU @AppleNewsUK iPhone exploded in back pocket after bike fall. Skin graft surgery required pic.twitter.com/QG26cuLYXH
— Gareth Clear (@gareth_clear) July 31, 2016
Apple has apparently told Clear that it will carry out an investigation into the incident.
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