APEL v. CITY OF NEW YORK

2685, 109477/07

73 A.D.3d 406 (2010)

901 N.Y.S.2d 183

LAURENCE APEL, Respondent, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, Appellant.

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

Decided May 4, 2010.


Plaintiff was injured during efforts to move a barge containing materials for the Williamsburg Bridge reconstruction project from the Manhattan to the Brooklyn side of the bridge. Moving the barge required that its 80-foot-long rod anchors, known as spuds, be raised from the river bed by a crane and that a three-foot-long, 125-pound steel "keeper pin" be inserted into the "toggle hole" in each spud to hold the spud upright. As plaintiff...

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