Case Name: Diomedes Jiminez et al., Respondents, v. Nidus Corporation et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants. (And a Third-Party Action.)
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2001-11-20
Citations: 288 A.D.2d 123
Docket Number: 
Parties: Diomedes Jiminez et al., Respondents, v Nidus Corporation et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants. (And a Third-Party Action.)
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 288
Pages: 123–124

Head Matter:
Diomedes Jiminez et al., Respondents, v Nidus Corporation et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants. (And a Third-Party Action.)
[733 NYS2d 43]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Michael DeMarco, J.), entered March 1, 2001, which granted plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability on their Labor Law § 240 (1) claim, and denied defendants' cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The evidence adduced on the motion established that plaintiff construction worker was injured when he slipped on ice and fell head-first into a 15-foot deep foundation excavation situated adjacent to his work area. It is undisputed that plaintiff had not been provided any safety devices to prevent or break his fall. Under these circumstances, plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment as to liability was properly granted since his injury was clearly caused by an elevation-related hazard within the remedial ambit of Labor Law § 240 (1). Defendants, in response to plaintiffs prima facie showing of entitlement to judgment as a matter of law, failed to raise any triable issue either as to whether they provided safety devices or as to whether their failure to provide such devices was the proximate cause of plaintiffs harm (see, Trillo v City of New York, 262 AD2d 121).
With regard to the remaining issues raised by defendants' cross motion for summary judgment, the motion court properly found that defendants' failure to proffer evidence in admissible form precluded an award of summary judgment (see, Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557, 563). Concur — Nardelli, J. P., Williams, Mazzarelli, Lerner and Friedman, JJ..