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Hajderlli v. Wiljohn

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Mar 2, 2010
71 A.D.3d 416 (N.Y. App. Div. 2010)

Opinion

No. 2261.

March 2, 2010.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Kenneth L. Thompson, Jr., J.), entered August 31, 2009, which, insofar as appealed from, denied plaintiffs motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of defendants' liability under Labor Law § 240 (1), and granted defendants' motions for summary judgment dismissing the section 240 (1) claims, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Pollack, Pollack, Isaac DeCicco, New York (Brian J. Isaac of counsel), for appellant.

McMAHON, Martine Gallagher, LLP, Brooklyn (Patrick W. Brophy of counsel), for Wiljohn 59 LLC, Wiljohn Associates LLC and Broadway Management Co. Inc., respondents/respondents.

B. Jennifer Jaffee, New York, for M. Melnick Co., Inc., respondent/respondent.

Barry, McTiernan Moore, New York (Laurel A. Wedinger of counsel), for Innovative Electric of New York, Inc., respondent.

Before: Friedman, J.P., Moskowitz, Renwick, Freedman and Román, JJ.


According to plaintiff, although he did not use the A-frame ladder as intended by unfolding it, but instead, following his supervisor, used it as a ramp to reach the ground floor approximately four feet below, his use of the ladder was not what caused him to fall. Rather, plaintiff fell because his supervisor, who had himself just reached the ground safely without opening or securing the ladder, apparently forgot or never realized that plaintiff was on the ladder, and pulled it away. That act was not foreseeable in the normal course of events, and was so far removed from any conceivable violation of the statute due to the failure to use, or inadequacy of, a safety device of the kind enumerated in the statute ( see Narducci v Manhasset Bay Assoc., 96 NY2d 259, 267) as to constitute, as a matter of law, a superseding act that broke any causal connection between any such violation of the statute and plaintiffs injuries ( see Derdiarian v Felix Contr. Corp., 51 NY2d 308, 315). We have considered plaintiffs other arguments and find them unavailing.

[Prior Case History: 24 Misc 3d 1242(A), 2009 NY Slip Op 51849(U).]


Summaries of

Hajderlli v. Wiljohn

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Mar 2, 2010
71 A.D.3d 416 (N.Y. App. Div. 2010)
Case details for

Hajderlli v. Wiljohn

Case Details

Full title:SHPETIM HAJDERLLI, Appellant, v. WILJOHN 59 LLC et al., Respondents…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Mar 2, 2010

Citations

71 A.D.3d 416 (N.Y. App. Div. 2010)
2010 N.Y. Slip Op. 1698
897 N.Y.S.2d 37

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