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GIUSEPPE Di GIACOMO, et al., appellants, v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, defendant third-party plaintiff-respondent; NATIONAL CLEANING CONTRACTORS n/k/a ISS CLEANING SERVICE GROUP, INC., third-party defendant-respondent.

ORDERED that the order is modified, on the law, by deleting the provisions thereof granting those branches of the cross motion which were to dismiss the plaintiffs' causes of action based on Labor Law § 200 and common-law negligence, and substituting therefor provisions denying those branches of the cross motion; as so modified, the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

The Supreme Court properly dismissed the plaintiffs' cause of action alleging a violation of Labor Law § 241(6), since the accident did not arise in a construction context (see, Jock v. Fien, 80 N.Y.2d 965; Paciente v. MBG Dev., 276 A.D.2d 761; Urbano v. Plaza Materials Corp., 262 A.D.2d 307; Houchang Haghighi v. Bailer, 240 A.D.2d 368)

However, summary judgment should have been denied with respect to the plaintiffs' causes of action based on Labor Law § 200 and common-law negligence. The accident was caused by water leaking from a crack in the exterior wall of the elevator motor room in a building owned by the defendant. The crack was more than five feet long and the plaintiff Guiseppe Di Giacomo testified at his examination before trial that the crack was visible for a year before the accident. He also observed water on the floor in the area of the crack, leaking onto the top of the elevator. Accordingly, there are questions of fact as to whether the defect was discoverable by reasonable inspection, and whether it was foreseeable that the crack in the exterior wall would cause water leakage (see, Bliss v. Londner, 20 A.D.2d 640).

SANTUCCI, J.P., ALTMAN, GOLDSTEIN and SCHMIDT, JJ., concur.

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Di GIACOMO v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO
(Feb 14, 2002)