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PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON HIS LABOR LAW 240 (1) CAUSE OF ACTION, BASED UPON A FALL FROM A SCAFFOLD, PROPERLY GRANTED, DEFENDANT’S ATTEMPTS TO RELY ON AN ALLEGED HEARSAY STATEMENT BY THE PLAINTIFF TO THE EFFECT THAT HE FELL WHEN CLIMBING UP TO THE SCAFFOLD, REJECTED, NO APPLICABLE EXCEPTION TO THE HEARSAY RULE (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department determined plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment in this Labor Law 240 (1) action was properly granted. Plaintiff alleged he fell from a scaffold which did not have railings. Defendant’s attempts (for the first time on appeal) to introduce plaintiff’s alleged hearsay statement that he fell when climbing up to the scaffold were rejected:

It is undisputed that the subject scaffold did not have railings, toe boards, or cross-bracing, and there was no place for plaintiff to tie off his safety harness. As such, plaintiff established a violation of the statute. Moreover, plaintiff testified that the accident occurred when he was on the scaffold, tripped on a block, and fell backward, off the scaffold to the ground, and his worker’s compensation claim also provides that he slipped and fell while on the scaffold. This is sufficient to establish that the violation was a proximate cause of the injury … . …

[Re: plaintiff’s alleged statement:] The business record exception is inapplicable, since defendants have not submitted the incident report for the … accident. The present sense impression exception is also inapplicable, since the out-of-court statement from plaintiff to the foreman that he fell while climbing up the scaffold is not corroborated by independent evidence … . The excited utterance exception does not apply, since defendants have not provided sufficient evidence of plaintiff’s mental state or established that he made the hearsay statement to the foreman under the stress of excitement … . Furthermore, plaintiff’s statement to the foreman does not fall within the declaration against interest exception because plaintiff was available to, and did, testify as a witness; there is no evidence that plaintiff knew the statement was adverse to his interests when it was made; and the supporting circumstances do not attest to its trustworthiness or reliability … . Gomes v Pearson Capital Partners LLC, 2018 NY Slip Op 01560, First Dept 3-8-18

LABOR LAW-CONSTRUCTION LAW (PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON HIS LABOR LAW 240 (1) CAUSE OF ACTION, BASED UPON A FALL FROM A SCAFFOLD, PROPERLY GRANTED, DEFENDANT’S ATTEMPTS TO RELY ON AN ALLEGED HEARSAY STATEMENT BY THE PLAINTIFF TO THE EFFECT THAT HE FELL WHEN CLIMBING UP TO THE SCAFFOLD, REJECTED, NO APPLICABLE EXCEPTION TO THE HEARSAY RULE(FIRST DEPT))/EVIDENCE (HEARSAY, LABOR LAW-CONSTRUCTION LAW, PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON HIS LABOR LAW 240 (1) CAUSE OF ACTION, BASED UPON A FALL FROM A SCAFFOLD, PROPERLY GRANTED, DEFENDANT’S ATTEMPTS TO RELY ON AN ALLEGED HEARSAY STATEMENT BY THE PLAINTIFF TO THE EFFECT THAT HE FELL WHEN CLIMBING UP TO THE SCAFFOLD, REJECTED, NO APPLICABLE EXCEPTION TO THE HEARSAY RULE(FIRST DEPT))/HEARSAY (LABOR LAW-CONSTRUCTION LAW, (PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON HIS LABOR LAW 240 (1) CAUSE OF ACTION, BASED UPON A FALL FROM A SCAFFOLD, PROPERLY GRANTED, DEFENDANT’S ATTEMPTS TO RELY ON AN ALLEGED HEARSAY STATEMENT BY THE PLAINTIFF TO THE EFFECT THAT HE FELL WHEN CLIMBING UP TO THE SCAFFOLD, REJECTED, NO APPLICABLE EXCEPTION TO THE HEARSAY RULE(FIRST DEPT))

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