Daly v. City of New York

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered January 30, 1998, dismissing an action by a laborer to recover for personal injuries pursuant to Labor Law § 240 (1) and § 241 (6), upon the parties’ respective motions for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The ceiling of the underground steam vault in which plaintiff, a utility company employee, was working at ground level, lubricating a slip joint in order to stop a leak in a steam main, was a completed structure, and its collapse and plaintiffs resultant injury was not due to an elevation-related…