Agresti v. Silverstein Properties, Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey K. Oing, J.), entered June 14, 2012, which granted plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability on the Labor Law § 240 (1) cause of action as against defendants 1 World Trade Center LLC and Tishman Construction Corporation, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff was injured when an improvised scaffold being used by two workers between two and five feet above plaintiff s head collapsed causing a wooden plank to fall and strike plaintiff in the head. Partial summary judgment in favor of plaintiff on his Labor Law…