Court Opinion

ID: 6081452
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 18:50:58.973175+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:53:13.016895
License: Public Domain

Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Supreme Court properly granted that part of third-party defendant’s cross motion seeking summary judgment dismissing the Labor Law § 240 (1) claim. Plaintiff Dean Russell, a subcontractor, tripped over an electrical cord while working on stilts and, in doing so, “did not encounter a hazard contemplated by the statute” (Melber v 6333 Main St., 91 NY2d 759, 761). (Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Onondaga County, Nicholson, J. — Summary Judgment.) Present — Hayes, J. P., Scudder, Burns, Gorski and Lawton, JJ.