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Friday, November 30, 2007 7:00 americium PST

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A South Korean building worker reportedly killed by an exploding cell telephone battery was actually killed in an industrial accident, South Korean news studies and cell telephone shaper said Friday.

The nameless worker was establish dead Wednesday with a melted cell telephone in his breast pocket. Initial studies quoted police force as saying they presumed the decease was owed to the battery exploding.

The initial studies "led to the partial premise by the mass media and the general populace that an LG merchandise was somehow the cause of this tragedy. This undeservedly damaged the company's repute for more than than a day," cell telephone shaper LG Electronics said in a statement.

The narrative made newspaper headlines worldwide in portion because respective companies have got had to remember batteries in recent old age because of defects that could do the batteries to detonate and wound users. Earlier this twelvemonth the world's greatest cell telephone maker, , issued an about faulty batteries in some of its phones. It offered to replace about 46 million Nokia-branded BL-5C batteries because they could short electrical circuit and overheat while recharging.

In mass media studies on Friday said the decease of the prey worker was actually accidental. The the adult male was hit by a co-worker drive a backhoe. Yonhap News also the same cause of death.

that the telephone likely caught on fire as a consequence of the heavy impact with the backhoe.