Court Opinion

ID: 6035738
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 13:18:55.820796+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:52:02.874122
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—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Elliott Wilk, J.), entered on or about February 20, 1998, which, insofar as appealed from, denied plaintiffs motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability under Labor Law § 240 (1), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff, who was injured by a light fixture that fell from the ceiling while he was engaged in the demolition of the basement level of a building, was properly denied summary judgment under Labor Law § 240 (1) on the ground that there are questions of fact as to whether the accident was the result of an elevation-related hazard as contemplated by that statute, i.e., “a difference between the elevation level of the required work and a lower level or a difference between the elevation level where the worker is positioned and the higher level of the materials or load being hoisted or secured” (Rocovich v Consolidated Edison Co., 78 NY2d 509, 514). Concur — -Ellerin, P. J., Rosenberger, Andrias, Saxe and Friedman, JJ.