Nalepa v. South Hill Business Campus, LLC

Stein, J.E

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Lebous, J.), entered March 15, 2013 in Broome County, which, among other things, granted defendant’s cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Plaintiff was a pipe fitter whose employer was hired to install pipes in a bathroom in a building owned by defendant. Plaintiff was working in the bathroom on the ground level of the build*1191ing while his coworker was in the ceiling locating water lines. Upon his coworker’s request for his assistance, plaintiff ascended a 10-foot wooden, folding A-frame ladder that he found leaning…