GERICITANO v. BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES OLP CO. LLC

5523, 156327/13.

157 A.D.3d 622 (2018)

67 N.Y.S.3d 453

2018 NY Slip Op 00480

FRANK GERICITANO, Respondent, v. BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES OLP CO. LLC, Sued Herein as BROOKFIELD OFFICE PROPERTIES, et al., Appellants.

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

Decided January 25, 2018.


Plaintiff established prima facie his entitlement to the protections of Labor Law § 240 (1) by submitting evidence that he was injured when a corner of an electrical transformer weighing hundreds of pounds and suspended from a ceiling shifted downward and struck him on the head as he was standing on a ladder working on it and that he had not been provided with any safety devices adequate to his task (see e.g. Rzymski v Metropolitan Tower Life Ins. Co.,

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