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3388. NICHOLAS NATOLI, plf-res, v. CITY OF NEW YORK def-ap — Cozen O’Connor, New York (Rachel H. Bevans of counsel), for ap — Shayne, Dachs, Sauer & Dachs, LLP, Mineola (Jonathan A. Dachs of counsel), for res — Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol R. Edmead, J.), entered May 19, 2016, which, to the extent appealed from, denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the Labor Law §240(1) claim, and granted plaintiff’s cross motion for partial summary judgment on that claim, unanimously modified, on the law, to deny plaintiff’s cross motion, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff was injured when he and a coworker attempted to move a wooden skid from a vertical position onto an A-frame dolly by tilting it at a 45-degree angle on one corner and toppling it onto the dolly. While plaintiff hoisted his side of the skid overhead with his arms, his coworker apparently lost his grip, and the skid fell on plaintiff, causing tears in his arm and shoulder.

 
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