This action involved a slip and fall incident wherein Plaintiff sustained severe injuries, requiring back surgery, as a result of Defendants’ negligence in failing to place floor mats in the lobby area, on a rainy day, knowing that the floor was slippery when wet.

Plaintiff’s expert conducted an inspection of the entry and lobby to the office building in which the accident occurred. When water was added to the unsealed tile surface, the
amount of available traction was 0.20, a traction level which is dangerously low. On the day of the incident, Defendants had failed to place a floor mat in the lobby area of the subject
building where Plaintiff slipped and fell. The only floor mat that existed was a built in floor mat immediately outside the lobby entrance doors leading into the lobby area. Inspection
revealed that the strips on the exterior mat were not absorbent and would not have removed moisture from the shoe. The nature and texture of exterior mat would
actually allow water to transfer from the exterior strips unto the sole and heel of ones shoes.

The testimony of Plaintiff was that it was generally wet and misty on the day of the incident since it had been raining. Plaintiff further testified that he remembers using his
windshield wipers on his way to work. In addition to the premises being wet and misty, Plaintiff testified that prior to walking into the lobby area, he had to walk on the exterior mat
and momentarily pause on the exterior mat to open the door. Therefore, the strips on the exterior mat were not absorbent and would not remove moisture from the shoe. In fact,
the strips actually allow water to transfer from the exterior strips to the sole and heel of Plaintiff’s shoe. As a result, Plaintiff slipped and fell after taking his first or second step into
the lobby area. Plaintiff testified that upon taking his first or second step he felt slipping really fast and fell to the ground.