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An oil company has been sued in Traverse City, Michigan, over an accident that occurred in the city zoo last summer. 
 
An employee, delivering fuel to a tank, allowed a diesel fuel hose to cross a train track, and the zoo's "miniature" train ran over it, causing a fire. 
 
Nobody was killed but there were injuries, and the lawsuit in question was filed by a man and his teenage grandson who were passengers on the train and who suffered broken bones.

Lawsuit filed over mini-train accident

Traverse City Record Eagle - 6/1/2006 10:06 AM

TRAVERSE CITY — Two passengers who were hurt last summer when the city's miniature train struck and ignited a fuel hose sued the oil company that made the fuel delivery.
 
William Parrish of Traverse City and his teenage grandson, Joshua Chapin of Howell, were riding in the first car behind the train engine last August when the train ran over a diesel fuel hose. The hose was laid across the tracks as Schmuckal Oil Co. employee Harvey Core delivered fuel to a nearby tank, the suit states
 
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