New York’s highest court has put contractors and property owners on notice that they are responsible for slippery surfaces caused by substances that might be very different than the substances they typically worry about as creating a slip and fall hazard.
In a recent ruling involving a fall caused by a plastic covering placed over an escalator to protect it from paint drippings, the Court of Appeals pointed out that the “foreign substance” does not have to be of the same type as “ice, snow, water and grease” that are specifically cited in the Industrial Co