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PLAINTIFF’S JOB ENTAILED CLEANING UP GARBAGE, SLIPPING ON A PIECE OF CARDBOARD WAS INHERENT IN HER WORK, PROPERTY OWNER’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant property owner’s motion for summary judgment in this slip and fall case should have been granted. The risk to plaintiff was inherent in her work:

… [T]he plaintiff testified that at the time of the accident she was employed by a nonparty to clean the subject building. Her duties included the weekly removal of garbage and material to be recycled from the basement of the building. The plaintiff was engaged in the performance of that task when the accident occurred. When asked what caused her to fall, she explained that “there was a lot of garbage” in the basement, including “cardboard all around.”

Where, as here, the plaintiff is a worker whose claim is based upon premises liability, the landowner’s duty is to provide the worker with a safe place to work. A landowner “need not guard against hazards inherent in the worker’s work, hazards caused by the condition the worker is engaged to repair, or hazards which are readily observed by someone of the worker’s age, intelligence, and experience” … .

Under the circumstances here, the defendant established its prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by showing that the risk of slipping on a piece of cardboard in the building’s basement was inherent in the plaintiff’s work … . Rojas v 1000 42nd St., LLC, 2018 NY Slip Op 02194, Second Dept 3-28-18

NEGLIGENCE (SLIP AND FALL, EMPLOYMENT LAW, PLAINTIFF’S JOB ENTAILED CLEANING UP GARBAGE, SLIPPING ON A PIECE OF CARDBOARD WAS INHERENT IN HER WORK, PROPERTY OWNER’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT))/SLIP AND FALL (EMPLOYMENT LAW, PLAINTIFF’S JOB ENTAILED CLEANING UP GARBAGE, SLIPPING ON A PIECE OF CARDBOARD WAS INHERENT IN HER WORK, PROPERTY OWNER’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT))/EMPLOYMENT LAW (SLIP AND FALL, PLAINTIFF’S JOB ENTAILED CLEANING UP GARBAGE, SLIPPING ON A PIECE OF CARDBOARD WAS INHERENT IN HER WORK, PROPERTY OWNER’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT))

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