iPhone Explodes In Man's Pocket Leaving Him With 3rd Degree Burns
LINDENHURST, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A Long Island man claims he cannot work after he suffered burns from his iPhone when it burst into flames.
As WCBS 880's Sophia Hall reported, 29-year-old Erik Johnson was still in pain as he sat in his Lindenhurst home.
Johnson said he was in New Jersey for his cousin's wake when all of a sudden, he felt a severe burning on his leg — his iPhone 5C had exploded in his front pocket.
"All I heard was a pop, and it started fizzling, and it just started to burn my leg," he told Hall. "It went to a pretty much instant burn, it didn't even warm up; it just went to burn. And the only way I could get the phone away from me was to rip off my pants to get the phone out."
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