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PLAINTIFF ALLEGED SHE WAS INJURED WHEN DEFENDANT’S TREADMILL SUDDENLY ACCELERATED; PLAINTIFF ALLEGED SHE COMPLAINED ABOUT THE TREADMILL-ACCELERATION DAYS BEFORE SHE WAS INJURED, RAISING A QUESTION OF FACT ABOUT DEFENDANT’S ACTUAL NOTICE OF THE DEFECT; DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT). ​

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the defendant fitness center’s motion for summary judgment in this treadmill-injury case should not have been granted. Plaintiff alleged the treadmill accelerated suddenly. Plaintiff’s deposition was submitted by the defendant in support of its motion. Plaintiff testified she had complained about the treadmill-acceleration several days prior to her injury. The defendant submitted no evidence concerning when the treadmill was last maintained or inspected:

… [T]he plaintiff testified at her deposition that she complained to a front desk employee of the defendant several days prior to the subject accident that the subject treadmill had spontaneously accelerated while the plaintiff was using it, causing her to quickly get off the machine. No inspection or maintenance records for the subject treadmill were submitted by the defendant in support of its motion. While the defendant submitted the deposition testimony of one of its owners, who testified that the defendant never received any complaints about the subject treadmill spontaneously accelerating at any time prior to the subject accident, this merely raised a question of fact, as well as an issue of credibility, that should be decided by the trier of fact. Mermelstein v Campbell Fitness NC, LLC, 2022 NY Slip Op 00419, Second Dept 1-26-22

 

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