Case Name: Frank Rizzo, Respondent, v. HRH Construction Corporation et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2003-01-16
Citations: 301 A.D.2d 426
Docket Number: 
Parties: Frank Rizzo, Respondent, v HRH Construction Corporation et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 301
Pages: 426–427

Head Matter:
Frank Rizzo, Respondent, v HRH Construction Corporation et al., Appellants.
[752 NYS2d 875]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alan Saks, J.), entered April 23, 2002, which, in an action by a laborer for personal injuries against the owner and general contractor of a construction site, insofar as appealed from, denied defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the plaintiffs causes of action under Labor Law § 200 and 241 (6), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff alleges that as he began to roll a wheelbarrow filled with debris up a ramp leading out of a basement, he tripped over a metal drainpipe protruding approximately three inches out of the poured concrete slab floor of the basement, sustaining injuries. Summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs section 241 (6) claim based on a violation of 12 NYCRR 23-1.7 (e) (2) was properly denied, the record being too sparse to permit findings that the drainpipe was a "sharp projection" within the meaning of that rule (cf. Lenard v 1251 Ams. Assoc., 241 AD2d 391, 393-394), and, if so, whether it was an integral part of a floor under construction (cf. Isold v JWP Forest Elec. Corp., 267 AD2d 157). Summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs section 200 claim was also properly denied, there being issues of fact as to whether defendants had supervisory control over the work that plaintiff was doing when injured, and, if so, whether the drainpipe was open and obvious (cf. Isold at 158). Concur— Tom, J.P., Mazzarelli, Buckley and Lerner, JJ.