SKETCHES OF COURT: Carpenter sues development, construction firms after accident
In this courtroom sketch, Hon. Genine Edwards listens as a witness for the plaintiff gives testimony in the damages phase of the bifurcated labor law trial Martin Nedd v. 44th Street Development LLC and Gotham Construction Co. LLC.
The plaintiff, a carpenter, was injured while working at a construction site on the superstructure of a west side Manhattan building in April 2012. As the worker walked across a lattice of nailed perpendicular wooden floor beams called “stringers” and “ribs,” an unsecured rib popped up, causing him to fall through a floor opening.
A coworker is testifying that he reached the dangling, bleeding plaintiff and pulled him up onto the deck. The plaintiff is represented by Stanley A. Tomkiel, III (standing) and co-counsel Matthew Tomkiel (seated, second from right) of the law firm Tomkiel & Tomkiel.
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