"His cell phone was found in his shirt pocket with its battery severely melted and his chest burned and fractured."
Ouch. Details here.
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Assuming that the story isn't fake... if the battery had exploded, it wouldn't have left a molten lump.
As already noted in Slashdot, it is more likely that something else exploded (the guy was working in a quarry!), and the battery melted as collateral damage.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/28/155242
Coworker confesses to covering up death with 'cell phone explosion' story.