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Inability to Remember Fall and Absence of Witnesses Did Not Preclude Summary Judgment on Labor Law 240(1) Cause of Action

The First Department determined the plaintiff’s inability to remember his fall from a scaffold and the absence of witnesses did not preclude summary judgment in his favor for the Labor Law 240(1) cause of action:

Plaintiff established his entitlement to judgment as a matter of law on the issue of liability in this action where he sustained injuries when, while performing asbestos removal work in a building owned by defendant, he fell from a baker’s scaffold. Plaintiff’s testimony that he was standing on the scaffold working, and then woke up on the ground with the scaffold tipped over near him, established a prima facie violation of the statute and that such violation proximately caused his injuries … . That plaintiff could not remember how he fell does not bar summary judgment … . Nor does the fact that he was the only witness raise an issue as to his credibility where, as here, his proof was not inconsistent or contradictory as to how the accident occurred, or with any other evidence … . Strojek v 33 E. 70th St. Corp., 2015 NY Slip Op 04203, 1st Dept 5-14-15

 

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