New York, New York--January 12, 2012-- New York Personal Injury law firm, Raphaelson and Levine, recovers an $840,000.00 award for a New York Construction worker injured while working at a Manhattan Café.
The 50-year old plaintiff was using a power saw to cut into the ceiling of the café at the time of the accident. The construction work required the use of an 8foot A-frame ladder. Plaintiff fell from the ladder, landed on the ground and sustained serious fractures that required surgery to both of his heels.
“This was a clear violation of New York’s Scaffold Law,” said Howard Raphaelson, of the Raphaelson and Levine law firm. “Section 240(1) of New York Labor Law states that contractors, owners and agents who hire for construction work ‘...shall furnish or erect scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders, slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, braces, irons, ropes, and other devices which shall be so constructed, placed and operated as to give proper protection to a person so employed.’”
