DeCarlo v Clyde Bergemann US, Inc. |
2012 NY Slip Op 00557 [91 AD3d 1290] |
January 31, 2012 |
Appellate Division, Fourth Department |
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau
pursuant to Judiciary Law ยง 431. |
As corrected through Wednesday, February 29, 2012 |
Justin De Carlo, Appellant, v Clyde Bergemann US, Inc.,
Doing Business as Clyde Bergemann EEC, et al., Respondents, et al.,
Defendant. |
Maxwell Murphy, LLC, Buffalo (Alan D. Voos of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.
Hiscock & Barclay, LLP, Buffalo (Brian G. Manka of counsel), for defendants-respondents
Clyde Bergemann Us, Inc., Doing Business as Clyde Bergemann EEC and Dunkirk Power LLC.
Law Offices of Douglas S. Coppola, Buffalo (William K. Kennedy of counsel), for
defendant-respondent Patent Construction Systems.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Joseph R. Glownia, J.), entered
November 23, 2010 in a personal injury action. The order denied plaintiff's motion for partial
summary judgment.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without
costs.
Memorandum: Plaintiff commenced this Labor Law and common-law negligence action
seeking damages for injuries he sustained when he fell from a ladder. Supreme Court properly
denied plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment on liability with respect to the Labor Law
240 (1) claim. "A worker injured by a fall from an elevated worksite must . . . generally prove
that the absence of or defect in a safety device was the proximate cause of his or her injuries"
(Felker v Corning Inc., 90 NY2d 219, 224 [1997]). Here, while plaintiff submitted evidence in
support of his motion establishing that the ladder was allegedly defective in several respects, he
failed to establish that any of those defects caused him to fall (see generally Grove v Cornell
Univ., 17 NY3d 875 [2011]; Ozimek v Holiday Val., Inc., 83 AD3d 1414, 1415-1416 [2011];
Davis v Brunswick, 52 AD3d 1231, 1232 [2008]). Present Scudder, P.J., Smith, Centra, Lindley
and Gorski, JJ.