Smokin’ hot: Man claims e-cig batteries sent sparks ‘shooting from his crotch area’
An Arlington man is suing the store where he bought two e-cigarette batteries after the devices exploded in his pocket, leaving him with severe burns on the lower part of his body.
Attorneys for David Powell and his wife, Shaye, filed a lawsuit in Tarrant County civil court this week against Vixen Vapors, a local chain that specializes in e-cigarettes and associated products. The family is seeking more than $1 million in damages.
Powell, who bought two rechargeable lithium-ion high-drain batteries at the chain’s Pantego store, had them in the front pocket of his shorts while playing kickball with a niece and a nephew at his grandparents’ house last year, according to Jim Ross, his attorney.
The batteries, which Ross said were not hit during the game, “suddenly and unexpectedly exploded, causing a scathing hot mixture of shrapnel” to burn the flesh on Powell’s thighs and genitals, according to court documents.
“He described it like those Fourth of July sparklers,” Ross said. “A hot, fizzing kind of explosion. Not a loud kaboom, {more like} a sizzling star. The sparks were shooting from his crotch area.”
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