Jamindar v. Uniondale Union Free School District

The plaintiff commenced this action to recover damages for *611personal injuries he allegedly sustained when he fell approximately 25 feet from the top of a scissor lift owned by the defendant Northgate Electrical (hereinafter Northgate) while he was removing duct work for his employer, the third-party defendant, Herrick’s Mechanical Corporation (hereafter Herrick’s), from an auditorium of the defendants/third-party plaintiffs Uniondale Union Free School District and Uniondale High School, as part of a larger renovation project. The plaintiff alleged, inter alia, that the scissor lift was unsafe…