In re the Arbitration bet. New Hampshire Insurance & Utilities Mutual Insurance

— Yesawich, Jr., J.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Cobb, J.), entered May 21, 1986 in Albany County, which partially granted petitioner’s application pursuant to CPLR 7511 to vacate an arbitration award.

This litigation arises out of an accident that occurred when a truck crane, owned by Utility Equipment Leasing Corporation, leased by Gallagher Equipment and Leasing Company and operated by Reuben-Siegfried Chauffeurs, struck a Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation building causing an explosion which, among other things, put Grady McClaney, who was engaged in the course of his employment…