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PLAINTIFF’S ALLEGEDLY INCONSISTENT ACCOUNTS OF THE CAUSE OF HIS FALL CREATED A QUESTION OF FACT.

The First Department, with a two-justice concurring memorandum, determined conflicting testimony raised questions of fact about whether a safety harness was available and whether the scaffold was defective. Plaintiff was not wearing a harness when he attempted to move from the roof to a scaffold and fell. With respect to the scaffold, the court noted that plaintiff’s allegedly inconsistent accounts of the cause of the fall raised a question of fact:

According to plaintiff, as he attempted to swing down from the roof to the scaffold, a wire attaching the scaffold to the building snapped, causing the scaffold to swing away from the wall and resulting in plaintiff’s fall to the ground below. The foreman, however, testified that, in conversation after the accident, plaintiff had admitted to him that he fell because his foot had slipped as he stepped onto the scaffold from the roof, without mentioning any movement of the scaffold. These two versions of how the accident happened, each given by plaintiff, the sole witness to the incident, are inconsistent with each other and give rise to an issue of fact as to whether plaintiff’s fall was caused by a failure of a safety device within the purview of § 240(1). As this Court recently noted, “[W]here a plaintiff is the sole witness to an accident, an issue of fact may exist where he or she provides inconsistent accounts of the accident” … . Albino v 221-223 W. 82 Owners Corp., 2016 NY Slip Op 05953, 1st Dept 9-8-16

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