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Fall Into a Three-to-Four-Foot-Deep Hole Is Not an Elevation-Related Event Under Labor Law 240(1)

The Fourth Department determined that falling into a hole is not an “elevation-related event” within the meaning of Labor Law 240(1).  The court further determined that regulation requiring that an excavation near a “sidewalk, street or highway or other area lawfully frequented by any person…” be guarded or covered did not apply to employees at a work site. With respect to the elevation requirement for section 240(1), the court wrote:

Where, as here, a plaintiff falls into a hole while walking at ground level, the plaintiff’s injury “[is] not caused by [defendants’] failure to provide or erect necessary safety devices in response to elevation-related hazards,’ and, accordingly, the protections of Labor Law § 240 (1) do not apply” … . The cases relied upon by plaintiff are factually distinguishable because they involve falls into excavated areas, as opposed to mere holes in the ground such as the one here … . Unlike the excavation cases, this is not a case where protective devices enumerated in Labor Law § 240 (1), e.g., “scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders, slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, braces, irons, [and] ropes” were designed to apply… . Wrobel v Town of Pendelton, 2014 NY Slip Op 05738, 4th Dept 8-8-14

 

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