Opinion
May 11, 1999
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Diane Lebedeff, J.).
The application was properly denied on the ground that petitioner, whose disabling line-of-duty ankle injury was sustained, when he tripped over a raised plank of plywood covering part of a precinct house stairway landing, failed., to show that his injury was the result of an accident, i.e., a sudden and unexpected event (see, Matter of Starnella v. Bratton, 92 N.Y.2d 836, 839).
Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Williams, Wallach, Rubin and Mazzarelli, JJ.