CACCESE v. LIEBHERR CONTAINER CRANES, LTD.

2015-07037, Index No. 100165/10.

149 A.D.3d 688 (2017)

2017 NY Slip Op 02622

53 N.Y.S.3d 59

VINCENT CACCESE, Appellant, v. LIEBHERR CONTAINER CRANES, LTD., Respondent, et al., Defendants. (And a Third-Party Action.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided April 5, 2017.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

On August 9, 2007, the plaintiff, a longshoreman, was operating a modified tractor, referred to as a "hustler," with a modified flatbed, deemed a "red bird," attached to it. The plaintiff's task was to receive shipping containers, which were lifted from a ship and dropped onto his red bird by a ship-to-shore gantry crane. The plaintiff allegedly was injured when a container being lowered onto his red bird came into contact...

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