Cordeiro v. TS Midtown Holdings, LLC
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*905Plaintiff John Cordeiro, an employee of third-party defendant Schindler, was injured while preparing to remove elevator equipment from a building owned and managed by defendants by hoisting it through hatchway doors connecting a motor room with the floor below it. As plaintiff was sliding open the latch to the doors, they unexpectedly opened, causing him to fall to the floor below.
Plaintiffs met their prima facie burden of establishing entitlement to partial summary judgment on their Labor Law § 240 (1) claim. Although the doors through which plaintiff fell were a permanent fixture of the…
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