battery exploded
Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:04 pm
Friend of mine who owns a service shop was working on a customer's vehicle swapping out a battery that was giving low voltage readings.
Pulled off the terminal connectors and the battery blew up. The force of the explosion threw him backwards a good 4 feet and the neighbors heard the boom over 1km away.
Fortunately he had his arm in front of his face/body over the battery and is luck to be alive.
Black eye, concussion and he can't hear out of his left ear for a while the doc says.
Heads up to you guys. Batteries can be dangerous, even for professional mechanics.
This battery was not even a year old and the truck is a few years old. He's going to have it looked at by the battery co. The decal on the battery says that it is a factory reconditioned one. Not sure what that means in this case.
Something happened inside and it was just a brewing ticking time bomb.
Be safe !
Pulled off the terminal connectors and the battery blew up. The force of the explosion threw him backwards a good 4 feet and the neighbors heard the boom over 1km away.
Fortunately he had his arm in front of his face/body over the battery and is luck to be alive.
Black eye, concussion and he can't hear out of his left ear for a while the doc says.
Heads up to you guys. Batteries can be dangerous, even for professional mechanics.
This battery was not even a year old and the truck is a few years old. He's going to have it looked at by the battery co. The decal on the battery says that it is a factory reconditioned one. Not sure what that means in this case.
Something happened inside and it was just a brewing ticking time bomb.
Be safe !