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IN THIS SCAFFOLD-FALL CASE, EVIDENCE PLAINTIFF WAS INSTRUCTED TO USE GUARD RAILS ON THE SCAFFOLD BUT DID NOT REQUIRED DENIAL OF PLAINTFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON THE LABOR LAW 240 (1) CAUSE OF ACTION (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department determined Supreme Court properly denied plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment in this scaffold-fall case. Defendants raised a question of fact with evidence plaintiff was instructed to use guard rails on the scaffold but did not:

… [T]hrough the testimony that plaintiff declined to use guardrails even though he was instructed to do so and even though guardrails were available, [defendants] raised an issue of fact as to whether plaintiff was the sole proximate of his accident, thus rendering summary judgment in his favor inappropriate … . Although the field supervisor did not witness the accident, he attested that he arrived on the scene as plaintiff was getting into the ambulance and proceeded straightaway to the worksite, where he found the Baker scaffold that plaintiff had been using to be in good condition, but the guardrails that plaintiff had been instructed to use leaning up against a nearby wall. Vargas v 1166 LLC, 2022 NY Slip Op 00528, 1-27-22

 

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