CRUZ v. TURNER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY


279 A.D.2d 322 (2001)

720 N.Y.S.2d 10

DUVAL R. CRUZ, Appellant, v. TURNER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Respondent.

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

Decided January 16, 2001.


Plaintiff, an electrician employed by non-party Remark Electric, was in the process of installing wiring for a fire alarm during the construction of a new school. He was standing on the fourth rung of a six-foot, six-rung A-frame ladder, pulling wire through piping, so it could be connected to the fire alarm system. A lubricating compound being used to assist in pulling wires through the piping had dripped onto the ladder as well as onto plaintiff and the floor. When plaintiff...

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