A New York appellate court awarded a worker partial summary judgment on his Labor Law claim based on his injuries from being struck by particleboard sheets that had fallen from a cart.
Case: Bain v. 350 West Development LLC, No. 160488/16, 02/11/2021, published.
Facts: Kendell Bain suffered injuries at a construction site when a stack of particleboard sheets fell onto him. The accident occurred when a cart’s wheel got caught in a gap in a ramp structure.
The ramp consisted of two strips of planking that was loosely cobbled together, not wide enough to span the width of two swingi...
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