Court Opinion

ID: 6016795
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 11:23:59.605906+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:50:34.962275
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Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (William Davis, J.), entered April 1, 1996, which, insofar as appealed from, dismissed plaintiffs claim under Labor Law § 241 (6) after the close of plaintiffs case, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Although a violation of 12 NYCRR 23-1.7 (e) may provide the basis for a claim under Labor Law § 241 (6) (see, e.g., Colucci v Equitable Life Assur. Socy., 218 AD2d 513), the trial court correctly held that that provision of the Industrial Code has no application to the facts of this case, which involve a hazard that arose from an integral part of the work plaintiff was performing (see, Adams v Glass Fab, 212 AD2d 972; cf., Lenard v 1251 Ams. Assocs., 241 AD2d 391). In particular, plaintiffs injury resulted from the sudden exposure to sharp edges of beams that broke loose from a plastic strap while he was carrying the beams; the injury was not caused by an “accumulation” of “[s]harp projections” in a “passageway” or “[w]orking area” (12 NYCRR 23-1.7 [e]). Plaintiffs contention that the trial court erred in excluding his expert’s testimony is rendered academic by the inapplicability of the Industrial Code. Concur—Murphy, P. J., Sullivan, Ellerin and Williams, JJ.