The AP reports a Kansas man filed a lawsuit against a Wichita vaping shop claiming that a spare battery for his e-cigarette exploded in his pocket. Daniel Anderson says he was “was carrying the lithium ion battery, his car keys and coins in his pants pocket” and the “touching metal items caused a short to the outside of the battery, which then overheated and exploded.” Anderson suffered burns to his left leg and hands and is seeking in excess of $75,000 from the vape shop and the manufacturer.

The Wichita (KS) Eagle reports the US Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products “identified 274 cases of e-cigarettes overheating, catching fire or exploding between 2009 and June 2017,” but those “numbers are underreported, the center’s spokesman Michael Felberbaum said.”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.