Sherman v. Eugene I. Piotrowski Builders, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment insofar as appealed from reversed on the law without costs, cross motion denied in part, Labor Law § 240 (1) cause of action reinstated and motion granted in accordance with the following Memorandum: Plaintiff, a roofer, injured his knee while descending from the roof of a two-story house to a garage roof. When plaintiff “hopped down” from the upper roof to the lower roof, a distance of approximately five feet, his right leg went through a seam of the plywood on the lower roof. Although there were ladders and other safety devices elsewhere at the site, none was at the site where he…
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