GARHARTT v. NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP.


192 A.D.2d 1027 (1993)

596 N.Y.S.2d 946

Robert J. Garhartt, Sr., Respondent, v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

April 29, 1993


Casey, J.

Plaintiff, a laborer employed by a third party, was injured when he fell about 20 feet from the top of a boiler in defendant's power plant. Plaintiff had been assigned to vacuum the dust that had collected there. He had been provided with a safety belt that was worn around his waist, to which a lanyard or line was attached that was anchored to a railing which bordered the steel catwalk next to the area where he was working. Prior to his fall...

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