Worker Injured Trying to Prevent Beam From Falling Gets Summary Judgment

A New York appellate court upheld a grant of summary judgment for a worker on his Labor Law claim for his injury from trying to prevent a beam from falling. Case: Mitchell v. Pullman SST Inc., No. 30447/19, 10/13/2026, published. Facts: Paul Mitchell was the foreman of a five-man crew tasked with lifting large metal beams from the ground to the top of a 14-foot-tall rolling tower used to build sidewalk sheds. To pass up the metal beams, Mitchell and Hugh Nelson stood on the ground; Brian Bryne stood on the tower's intermediate 7-foot-high platform; and two co-workers stood at the top of...