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PLAINTIFF WAS STRUCK BY A CABLE WHICH WHIPLASHED WHEN A TRUCK RAN INTO IT; THE INDUSTRIAL CODE PROVISION REQUIRING SAFETY MEASURES WHEN WORKING NEAR TRAFFIC APPLIED; THE LABOR LAW 241(6) CAUSE OF ACTION SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing (modifying) Supreme Court, determined the Labor Law 241(6) cause of action should not have been dismissed. Plaintiff was injured when a truck struck a cable which whiplashed and struck plaintiff. It was alleged Industrial Code section 12 NYCRR 23-1.29(a) was violated. That Code provision reads: “Whenever any construction, demolition or excavation work is being performed over, on or in close proximity to a street, road, highway or any other location where public vehicular traffic may be hazardous to the persons performing such work, such work area shall be so fenced or barricaded as to direct such public vehicular traffic away from such area, or such traffic shall be controlled by designated persons:”

… [T]here is no dispute that the Industrial Code section upon which plaintiff relies is sufficiently specific to support a Labor Law § 241 (6) claim. In addition, the facts show plaintiff was still engaged in construction, aloft in a lift bucket and tightening a newly installed steel cable wire, in close proximity to public vehicular traffic on a roadway, when a moving truck struck the cable that was installed in an underpass area and caused the cable to whiplash and strike plaintiff. At the time, there was no flag person or erected barricades to control traffic in the work area. Accordingly, the evidence established that 12 NYCRR 23-1.29(a) was violated and that this violation was a proximate cause of plaintiff’s injuries. Thus, the court should have granted plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment on the Labor Law § 241(6) claim, as plaintiff was not required to demonstrate freedom from comparative fault in order to be awarded summary judgment on that claim … . Bucci v City of New York, 2024 NY Slip Op 00124, First Dept 1-11-24

Practice Point: Here a truck ran into a cable which whiplashed and struck plaintiff. The Industrial Code provision requiring safety measures, such as flagmen or barriers, when working in the vicinity of traffic applied and supported the Labor Law 241(6) cause of action.

 

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