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HARGOBIN v. K.A.F.C.I. CORP.

282 A.D.2d 31 (2001)

724 N.Y.S.2d 155

KHAMRAJH HARGOBIN et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. K.A.F.C.I. CORP. et al., Respondents, and AARK CONSTRUCTION OF N. Y. INC. et al., Appellants-Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 3, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman E. Frowley of counsel (Zalman & Schnurman, attorneys), for respondents-appellants.

Lisa M. Comeau of counsel (Law Offices of Patrick Colligan and Carol R. Finocchio, attorneys), for respondents.

Haydn J. Brill of counsel (Jeffrey T. Miller on the brief; Smith Mazure Director Wilkins Young Yagerman & Tarallo, P. C., attorneys), for AARK Construction of N. Y. Inc., appellant-respondent.

Christopher J. Crawford of counsel (Stephen M. Cohen on the brief; Brody, Fabiani & Cohen, attorneys), for Barney Skanska Construction Company and another, appellants-respondents.

Lewis R. Silverman of counsel (Heather G. Golin on the brief; Renzulli & Rutherford, L. L. P., attorneys), for American Airlines, Inc. and another, appellants-respondents.

NARDELLI, J. P., WILLIAMS, TOM and FRIEDMAN, JJ., concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

WALLACH, J.

The Scaffold Act (Labor Law § 240 [1]), which is designed to enhance the safety of laborers whose work on construction sites calls for the use of such apparatus as "scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders, slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, braces, irons, [or] ropes," was first introduced in this State more than a century ago as a criminal sanction against the negligent furnishing of insecure safety devices (L 1885, ch 314...

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