Prototype battery blamed in explosion at GM's Tech Center

Good he wasn't killed. Explosions probably mean progress. Now they should know what makes it explode. But when I was bending steel at IH Tractor Works a guy got killed in the engine test lab when an engine blew up due to over-revving. The only progress I saw there was fighting between the UAW and management made sure nobody else got killed.

--Vic

Geeze... Everybody knows you shouldn't charge batteries inside!

Only in a "well ventilated area".

Maybe they hadn't placed the warning sticker on yet, so no one knew? :-)

Warren=97 General Motors Co. said a Wednesday explosion at a=20 board-meeting in the General Motors Technical Center that=20 injured one person was unrelated to the Chevrolet Volt or=20 any other production vehicle, but was related to "extreme=20 testing on an excel worksheet."

Four others were evaluated after an explosion sparked by gases=20 from the boardmembers at a boardmeeting at the GM Tech Center.=20 The explosion blew out several windows.

GM, in a statement released at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, said that=20 during discussing the testing of an "experimental excel=20 worksheet" chemical gases from the board-members and the=20 excel cells were released. Those gases then ignited in the room=20 and caused an explosion, leaving the boardroom itself intact.=20 GM didn't say what gases built up that led to the explosion.