Falling from High Heights NYC

New York State is unique in that it is the only state that will automatically place the responsibility on a contractor, property owner, and their agents for injuries sustained by a worker as a result of a construction accident. Specifically, New York Labor Law 240 was enacted to ensure that construction workers who are injured from a “gravity-related event” or “elevated risk,” such as falling from a high height or even being struck by a falling object, can be compensated. If you fall from a height on a construction site and are injured, there can be a claim brought against the responsible party, or parties, in accordance with New York Labor Law 240, and you should immediately call the Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff.

New York Labor Law 240 was created to protect all sorts of workers performing many different jobs on construction sites. It applies to commercial buildings, apartment buildings, and buildings that consist of three or more family homes, with the construction work being done on a structure, such as a building, tower, garage, bridge, subway or railroad tunnel, and even a boat. New York Labor Law 240 even covers the erection, demolition, repairing, altering, painting, cleaning, pointing of a building, and erection of scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders, slings, handlers, blocks, pulleys, braces, irons, ropes, and other devices. 

Along with New York Labor Law 240, New York State enacted another powerful labor law known as New York Labor Law 241(6). Under New York Labor Law 241(6), there is a strict duty imposed on property owners, contractors, architects, and even manufacturers of equipment mandating that all New York State Industrial Code provisions are being complied with. One of the more common rules of the New York State Industrial Code that is violated is Rule 23.