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Information wasn't "that guy". The reason I know that is that he has the Chinese welder mixed up with the South Korean quarryman.

This is part of the AP story and note that it is not about a Chinese man who actually did die from injuries caused by the explosion of the battery to his Motorola phone. The phone that was in question with the South Korean man was made by LG:

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As it turns out, there was more to that story yesterday about the South Korean man getting killed by an exploding cell phone battery. Rather, it had something to do with a co-worker operating an excavator next to him. It seems the co-worker lied about the accident for fear of the trouble that would no doubt follow.

It is good to know that it was not the cell phone, and I am sure LG is very, very relieved. Fifteen days to wait until the official cause of death, but it sounds like the poor guy was run over. How that phone caught fire is the next piece of the puzzle.
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Regarding the Chinese man, who was a welder, he did die. The battery exploded in his shirt pocket, drove into his ribs, pushing one into his heart. He worked in an area that was warmer than what most people work in and it is believed that might have let to its overheating although clearly the if the ambient temperature is still tolerable by humans, it shouldn't cause devices to explode.

Information, I suggest you follow your own advice to AOL and maybe the next time you will realize that you were mixing up two different stories. Regarding, alarming the public, given that the man reported to have died from the explosion actually did and the one who you said was killed by his co=worker was someone else, the story speaks for itself. Ion-lithium batteries are unstable and the more electronics that get packed into increasing;y smaller spaces with no active cooling mechanisms means more heat and heat is a catalyst for violent chemical reactions...like explosions.]]>Mar 22nd 2008 9:40AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/03/20/gadgets-gone-evil-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/03/20/gadgets-gone-evil-2/Mar 26th 2008 3:53AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/03/20/gadgets-gone-evil-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/03/20/gadgets-gone-evil-2/Mar 31st 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/03/20/gadgets-gone-evil-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/03/20/gadgets-gone-evil-2/Jul 24th 2008 12:47AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/03/20/gadgets-gone-evil-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/03/20/gadgets-gone-evil-2/Jan 26th 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/03/20/gadgets-gone-evil-2/http://www.switched.com/2008/03/20/gadgets-gone-evil-2/For 30 years, he kept dying because of a Bic lighter that he accidentally ignited in his shirt pocket with orange-hot slag from his welding.
The claim about a person dying from an exploding cell phone might have begged a little more investigation, had that person not been said to be a welder.]]>May 12th 2009 12:39PM