Reuters reports that Apple is investigating media reports that one or more iPhones have exploded in Europe, a European Commission spokeswoman said on Tuesday. A french teenager claims he got a splinter in his eye after his girlfriend’s iPhone started hissing and then exploded cracking the glass in a most impressive pattern.

The spokeswoman for the EU executive, which oversees the safety of consumer products sold in all 27 countries, said Apple had described the reported incidents as isolated. Apple said it was aware of the media reports, but did not comment on any contacts with the commission. “[Apple doesn’t] consider that there’s a general problem,” Commission spokeswoman Helen Kearns told a news briefing.

Apple did not comment on the commission spokeswoman’s remarks. But a spokesman for Apple Europe Ltd said, “We are aware of these (media) reports and we are waiting to receive the iPhones from the customers. Until we have the full details, we don’t have anything further to add.”

There have been reports of exploding iPhones in the past, but mostly from hacking jobs gone bad or extreme mistreatment of the gadget, but iphones exploding for no apparent reason would indeed be a new and unwelcome development.