NEW DELHI:
Gareth Clear
, a management consultant from Sydney, Australia, has reportedly suffered severe burn injury after his
iPhone 6
exploded. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, the smartphone which was in Clear's back pocket caught fire after he fell from his bike, landing on his
iPhone 6.
"Seconds later he noticed smoke and a searing heat, before hearing an explosion as the phone he’d had for just six months ignited, melting through his shorts and two layers of skin on his upper right thigh," says the news report.
The injury is said to be so serious that Clear had to undergo skin graft at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney.
Clear told The Daily Telegraph that while the back of smartphone was completely damaged with "metal bending and all the lithium leaking out of the bottom end", the top remained "perfectly intact".
Apple reportedly told Clear that the company will be carrying an investigation into the incident.
On his part, Clear has taken to Twitter to spread the message about the dangers of lithium-ion batteries. "The more pervasive these are in our lives and the more people use them with a lack of apprehension that something might go wrong, the more that these things will happen," he told technology website CNET.
In June 2015 too, a person called
Kishan Yadav
had claimed that his iPhone 6 exploded during a hands-free phone call. He is said to have survived unscathed after he threw his device out of his car's window.