RICCIARDI v. BERNARD JANOWITZ CONSTRUCTION CORP.


49 A.D.3d 624 (2008)

853 N.Y.S.2d 373

CHRISTOPHER RICCIARDI et al., Appellants, v. BERNARD JANOWITZ CONSTRUCTION CORP. et al., Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs-Respondents. JME FIRE SPRINKLER CORP. et al., Third-Party Defendants-Respondents.

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

Decided March 11, 2008.


Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with one bill of costs, and the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability on the cause of action alleging a violation of Labor Law § 240 (1) is granted.

The plaintiff Christopher Ricciardi (hereinafter the plaintiff) was injured when he fell from the seventh rung of an unsecured A-frame ladder while installing a sprinkler system at a construction site. As he tightened...

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