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PLAINTIFF WAS NOT ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE DEFENDANTS-HOMEOWNERS DIRECTED HIM TO REMOVE HIS BOOTS WHILE WORKING, PLAINTIFF SLIPPED AND FELL ON STAIRS BECAUSE HE WAS WEARING ONLY SOCKS, DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON THE LABOR LAW 200 CAUSE OF ACTION SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendants-homeowners’ motion for summary judgment should have been granted in this Labor Law 200 action. Someone told plaintiff to take off his boots while working in the home and he slipped and fell on the stairs. Plaintiff did not demonstrate that it was the defendants who told him to remove his boots:

Plaintiff claims that he was injured after slipping and falling on slippery stairs because he was directed to remove his boots while working. Defendants established prima facie that they did not exercise supervisory control over the means and methods of plaintiff’s work … . Their principals, the homeowners, testified that they were not home on the day of the accident and that they never asked any workers to remove their boots. In opposition, plaintiff failed to raise an issue of fact as to whether the man from whom he received the instruction to remove his boots had apparent authority to direct his work … . Plaintiff was unable to identify the man, the man’s employer, or the man’s relationship to the homeowners. Moreover, plaintiff testified that at first he refused to take his boots off. Plaintiff called his supervisor who warned him that if he did not remove his boots he would be fired. As such, plaintiff’s supervisor gave the ultimate direction to remove his boots, which establishes that the employer exercised supervisory control over the injury-producing work.

The record also shows that the stairs were not in a dangerous condition … . Plaintiff himself testified that there were no observable defects on the stairs, that they were not wet, and that they were free of chips and cracks. He admitted that he slipped solely because he was wearing socks with no boots … . Antonio v West 70th Owners Corp., 2019 NY Slip Op 02626, First Dept 4-4-19

 

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