Butler v. D. M. W. Contracting Co.

While the general contractor in the construction of a building owes to the employees of a subcontractor a common-law duty of exercising reasonable care to make safe the places of work provided by him, and the ways and approaches to such places (cf. Iacono v. Frank & Frank Contr. Co., 259 N. Y. 377), the scaffold from which plaintiff fell was neither a place of work provided by the general contractor nor a way of approach to such place. Upon the evidence here presented, the scaffold did not constitute a place of work within the purview of section 200 of the Labor Law. Judgment unanimously…