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WIREMAN v. KENECO DISTRIBUTORS, INC.

No. 94-1448.

75 Ohio St.3d 103 (1996)

WIREMAN, ADMR., ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. KENECO DISTRIBUTORS, INC. ET AL.,; MARATHON OIL COMPANY ET AL., APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided March 4, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mihlbaugh & Mihlbaugh, Michael P. Mihlbaugh and Robert H. Mihlbaugh, for appellants.

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, John C. Barron, Thomas P. Dillon and Jeffrey S. Creamer, for appellee Marathon Oil Company.

Hammond Law Office and Frederick A. Sewards, for appellees Northwest Enterprises, Inc., Freymuth and Jackson.

John K. Fitch, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.

PFEIFER, J.

Appellants contend that Wireman was fatally injured when he was negligently instructed to use a shop vac to clean tank 101. Appellants contend that the explosion of tank 101 was caused by a spark from the shop vac igniting gasoline vapors in the tank. Appellants claim that the gasoline vapors flowed into tank 101 through a pipe in the VRS that connects tank 101 to an adjoining tank. Appellants contend that Marathon's design of the VRS was defective because...

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