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“Falling Objects” Protection Afforded by Labor Law 240 (1) Explained

In affirming the denial of defendant's motion for summary judgment on the Labor Law 240 (1) cause of action, the Fourth Department explained the law relating to “falling objects:”

Labor Law § 240 (1) “applies to both falling worker' and falling object' cases” …, and that section 240 (1) guards “workers against the special hazards' that arise when the work site either is itself elevated or is positioned below the level where materials or load [are] hoisted or secured' ” … . To recover under section 240 (1), a worker injured by a falling object must thus establish both (1) that the object was being hoisted or secured, or that it ” required securing for the purposes of the undertaking,' ” and (2) that the object fell because of the absence or inadequacy of a safety device to guard against a risk involving the application of the force of gravity over a physically significant elevation differential … . Floyd v New York State Thruway Auth, 2015 NY Slip Op 01131, 4th Dept 2-6-15


 

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