Farm equipment engine fire (loose bolt)

Current consulting case (referenced as "last week"). Bolt-came-loose engine fire on $700k farm equipment, 100 hours old. Defense attorney's theory converts an assembly defect into a design defect via the flatbed-transport argument.

Just last week or so, someone called me up. I'll write a paper, I won't say too much, but it's a piece of farm equipment, about $700,000, only had a hundred hours on it. A bolt came loose, and everybody agrees that when the bolt came loose in the engine, it started a fire and destroyed the $700,000 piece of machinery. They moved it forty miles on a flatbed truck to a shop to do a teardown inspection. Everybody agrees, this bolt allowed the diesel fuel from the engine to get out, found an ignition source, and started a fire. The guy was riding the machine through the fields, got out, tried to put it out by throwing dirt on top of the engine.