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PLAINTIFF ALLEGED HE WAS PROVIDED WITH A DEFECTIVE LADDER, QUESTION OF FACT WHETHER THE LADDER WAS A DANGEROUS CONDITION CREATED BY DEFENDANT OR OF WHICH DEFENDANT HAD NOTICE, LABOR LAW 200 CAUSE OF ACTION SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED.

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff’s Labor Law 200 claims should not have been dismissed. Plaintiff alleged defendant provided him with a defective ladder (proper footing missing) and he was injured when the ladder slipped from under him. The court explained that the proper analysis, where the accident did not arise from the means or methods of work, is whether defendant created or had notice of the dangerous condition:

Where, as here, plaintiff alleged that defendants — the premises owners — provided him with the defective ladder, “the legal standard that governs claims under Labor Law § 200 is whether the owner created the dangerous or defective condition or had actual or constructive notice thereof,” not whether the accident arose out of the means and methods of plaintiff’s work … .

The conflicting deposition testimony submitted by the parties shows that there is a triable issue as to whether defendants provided plaintiff with the allegedly defective ladder. Moreover, plaintiff’s testimony that the ladder was missing its feet was sufficient to raise an issue of fact as to whether defendants had constructive notice of the defect because of its visible and apparent nature … . Jaycoxe v VNO Bruckner Plaza, LLC, 2017 NY Slip Op 00012, 1st Dept 1-3-17

 

LABOR LAW-CONSTRUCTION LAW (PLAINTIFF ALLEGED HE WAS PROVIDED WITH A DEFECTIVE LADDER, QUESTION OF FACT WHETHER THE LADDER WAS A DANGEROUS CONDITION CREATED BY DEFENDANT OR OF WHICH DEFENDANT HAD NOTICE, LABOR LAW 200 CAUSE OF ACTION SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED)/LADDERS (LABOR LAW-CONSTRUCTION LAW, PLAINTIFF ALLEGED HE WAS PROVIDED WITH A DEFECTIVE LADDER, QUESTION OF FACT WHETHER THE LADDER WAS A DANGEROUS CONDITION CREATED BY DEFENDANT OR OF WHICH DEFENDANT HAD NOTICE, LABOR LAW 200 CAUSE OF ACTION SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED)

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