DOUCET, Judge.
On September 18, 1981, employees of Sunland Construction Company, Inc. (Sunland) were engaged in excavating an existing pipeline owned by Conoco. A Sunland employee was operating a John Deere Model 410 diesel backhoe tractor owned by Sunland during the excavation procedure when a pressurized pipeline was apparently struck and ruptured, causing natural gas within the pipeline to escape. The backhoe then caught fire. Lester Klumpp, a Conoco employee,...
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