14 DAY TRIAL // Another day, another Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that catches fire, this time even sending a man to the hospital due to smoke inhalation.
Michael Klering from Kentucky says his Note 7 exploded on Tuesday night at around 4 AM, filling the room with smoke and causing a small fire to the furniture. Klering told WKYT that the phone was a replacement Note 7 that he purchased only one week before the incident, explaining that it wasn’t even plugged into a charger when it caught fire.
“The phone is supposed to be the replacement, so you would have thought it would be safe. It wasn’t plugged in. It wasn’t anything, it was just sitting there,” Klering explained.
Although everything seemed to end well at first glance, Klering started feeling sick the next day, so he went to the emergency room.
“The whole room just covered in smoke, smells awful. I look over and my phone is on fire. I was vomiting black so it was very scary. It was a lot of black stuff and it didn’t look right,” Klering said, adding that doctors diagnosed him with acute bronchitis. Since the disease was caused by smoke inhalation as a result of a fire, the hospital also alerted the fire department, who started investigating the case too.
Samsung contacted him and asked for the phone, but Klering refused to hand it over, agreeing instead to have it X-rayed by the company.
Samsung sending message to the wrong guy
What happened next, however, is a little bit unexpected. Klering explains that he received a message from Samsung that he wasn’t supposed to get and which he believes was part of a conversation between company executives.
“Just now got this. I can try and slow him down if we think it will matter, or we just let him do what he keeps threatening to do and see if he does it,” the message reads.
Klering is now seeking legal assistance, explaining that although he previously wanted to work together with Samsung on addressing the issue, he’s now looking to pursue a case against the company, especially after mistakenly receiving the aforementioned message.
Samsung hasn’t issued an official statement on this, and the company is most likely investigating the case, but a second recall is slowly becoming mandatory, especially because exploding phones are now leading to severe injuries to their owners.
