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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 22 2018, @06:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the banned-on-airlines-in-3..2..1 dept.

From the BBC:

Three Apple employees have been treated for minor injuries after an iPad battery reportedly exploded in an Amsterdam shop.

The three staff are believed to have breathed vapours released when the battery caught fire.

The incident, on 19 August, led to the shop in Amsterdam's Leidseplein being evacuated and closed.

Firefighters were called and they dealt with the iPad and made sure the shop was properly aired.

The shop has now re-opened.

Amsterdam's fire brigade tweeted that it had attended the incident and three people had been treated for breathing problems.

A Dutch media site said staff in the store had initially dealt with the fuming iPad by putting it in a sand-filled fire bucket.

This reportedly quelled the fire but not before some of the potentially harmful irritants had been released.

Apple news site 9to5mac said it had seen more incidents of similar faults since the electronics company had started its iPhone battery replacement programme.


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  • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Wednesday August 22 2018, @11:39AM (2 children)

    by Aiwendil (531) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @11:39AM (#724616) Journal

    Electric cars, some jetplanes, electronic stores, any computer store, any place that gets a tesla powerwall...

    Lithium batteries has been around for decades, and they actually are quite safe unless you try to do insane things (like agressivly cut costs, push them to their limits, puncture them, run them in non-secured containers or hand them to untrained people), but amazingly much of todays tech is used and designed by people that doesn't understand why the limitations are there.

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  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Wednesday August 22 2018, @06:37PM (1 child)

    by Nuke (3162) on Wednesday August 22 2018, @06:37PM (#724796)

    Lithium batteries .... are quite safe unless you try to do insane things (like agressivly cut costs, push them to their limits, puncture them, run them in non-secured containers or hand them to untrained people)

    So which of those insane things was Apple doing there? Handing them to untrained people (99% of customers) perhaps?

    • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Thursday August 23 2018, @07:25AM

      by Aiwendil (531) on Thursday August 23 2018, @07:25AM (#725096) Journal

      All but puncturing them.. the list actually is a lot longer but I listed the common things to encounter outside industrial settings.

      Three interesting cases of where handing them to untrained people (but with basic sanity checks) and they are safe are hearing aids, specialist camera batteries and extra long life (6-10 years) smoke/fire alarm batteries - but in those cases costs are of less importance (you can just tack on twice as much and the customers will appreciate the extra safety).