Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 2000

Figueroa v. Center Associates

Figueroa v. Center Associates
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided January 13, 2000
268 A.D.2d 279; 700 N.Y.S.2d 709; 2000 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 366
Figueroa v. Center Associates

Opinion of the Court

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Stanley Green, J.), entered July 9, 1998, which denied plaintiffs motion for summary judgment as to liability on his Labor Law § 240 (1) cause of action against defendant Center Associates, a New York partnership, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

There are issues of fact as to whether plaintiffs fall was the result of an extraordinary gravity-related risk within the protective ambit of Labor Law § 240 (1) (see, Gettys v Port Auth., 248 AD2d 226), or was the result of some other peril arising as an ordinary and usual incident of construction (see, Nieves v Five Boro Air Conditioning & Refrig. Corp., 93 NY2d 914; Papapietro v Rock-Time, Inc., 265 AD2d 174). Concur—Rosenberger, J. P., Mazzarelli, Wallach and Saxe, JJ.

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