14 DAY TRIAL // An eighth-grader in Kennebunk, Maine sat on her iPhone during class causing its battery to short. The device exploded and burned her, prompting the school’s staff to send her to the hospital.
According to the Bangor Daily News, “...the female student was about to start her first class of the day, at approximately 7:40 a.m., when she sat down in her classroom and ‘heard a pop’ from her back pants pocket, where her phone was located. Immediately, the student noticed smoke coming from that area.”
The report suggests the girl panicked and went into a corner of the classroom, but her classmates told her ‘stop, drop and roll,’ and to try to get out of the pants she was wearing.”
The iPhone eventually fell out of the girl’s pants during the comotion, and later Kennebunk Fire Rescue arrived to treat her for burns. The student was then taken to the hospital “for additional care,” where it was determined that she had only suffered “moderate” injuries. She has since been released.