Garhartt v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtCasey, J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Keegan, J.), entered September 12, 1992 in Albany County, which granted plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability.
Plaintiff, a laborer employed by a third party, was injured when he fell about 20 feet from the top of a boiler in defendant’s power plant. Plaintiff had been assigned to vacuum the dust that had collected there. He had been provided with a safety belt that was worn around his waist, to which a lanyard or line was attached that was anchored to a railing which bordered the steel catwalk next to the area…
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