Ruckman

I. Facts.

We summarize the facts and evidence in the light most favorable to the judgment. (Cassim v. Allstate Ins. Co. (2004) 33 Cal.4th 780, 787 (Cassim).) A. The explosion. In 2015, Wildwood purchased agricultural land near Wible Road and Houghton

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2. Road in Kern County (the property) from Oasis Turf, LLC (Oasis). Robert Sandrini was Oasis’s owner and used the property for sod farming. Around the time Wildwood purchased the property, Wildwood and Oasis entered a lease-back agreement permitting Oasis to finish harvesting the sod on the property. Gloria and Robert Ruckman had finished building a house on the adjoining land to the property in July 2015. The Ruckmans lived in the house with their son, Robert (Young Robert), born in October 2015.2 Wildwood intended to plant almond trees on the property and contracted with Ag- Wise to manage the property. Ag-Wise’s owner and president, Ed Kuykendall, hired Jeff Alexander, doing business as BND, to excavate the soil3 on the property to prepare it for almond trees. Ag-Wise had previously contracted with BND to perform excavation work. Ag-Wise and…