HAWKINS v. CITY OF NEW YORK


275 A.D.2d 634 (2000)

713 N.Y.S.2d 311

GREGORY HAWKINS, Appellant, v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents.

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

Decided September 21, 2000.


Plaintiff construction worker was directed to go to the third floor of a school undergoing renovations and pull steel beams into the building. Just prior to the accident, one steel beam was positioned at the third-floor level of the structure, supported on either side only by the walls and spanning a completely open area almost 30 feet long between the walls. Plaintiff and his co-workers were not furnished with any hoists, ropes or any other devices to move or support the...

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