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FENTY v. CITY OF NEW YORK

2307, 100908/05

71 A.D.3d 459 (2010)

897 N.Y.S.2d 53

GERARD FENTY, Appellant, v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. HILLTOP CONSTRUCTION AND GENERAL CONTRACTING, INC., Third-Party Defendant-Respondent. CDE AIR CONDITIONING, Second Third-Party Plaintiff, v. GRAND PIPING CORP., Second Third-Party Defendant-Respondent.

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

Decided March 9, 2010.

On the section 240 (1) claim, plaintiff's injury-producing accident was not attributable to the risk arising from the elevation differentials at his work site that brought about the need for the safety device in the first place, but rather was caused by the separate, unforeseeable hazard of hot steam emanating from a ruptured pipe, leading to plaintiff's decision to jump from the bucket lift (see Cohen v Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr., 11...

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