Labor Law § 240(1)

Practice point: An object falling from a minuscule height is not the type of elevation-related injury that the statute was intended to protect against. Moreover, for the statute to be implicated, the object must have been in the process of being hoisted or secured when it fell because of inadequate safety devices.

Case: Cambry v. Lincoln Gardens, NY Slip Op 04047 (2d Dept. 2008)