WALKER v. METRO-NORTH COMMUTER RAILROAD


272 A.D.2d 57 (2000)

707 N.Y.S.2d 165

HERMAN I. WALKER, Appellant, v. METRO-NORTH COMMUTER RAILROAD et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants. METRO-NORTH COMMUTER RAILROAD et al., Third-Party Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. BRONZE SALES, INC., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.

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

Decided May 2, 2000.


Labor Law § 240 was never intended to cover an injury from electrical shock sustained by a worker on a scaffold caused by a dangling electrical extension cord that made contact with a live wire below the scaffold (see, Alfieri v New York City Tr. Auth., 190 A.D.2d 594, lv denied 82...

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