Galloway v. Tenth City Associates

*255Plaintiff was an employee of Tishman Construction Company, which was engaged to do renovation work on a building owned by defendants Tenth City Associates and Bevin D. Koeppel. Plaintiff sustained injury when he slipped and fell while climbing out a window that was being used to gain access to a terrace or "setback” area. The sill of the window is over a foot higher than the setback floor and is about three feet above the floor of the adjoining room. Plaintiff alleges that, as he attempted to step down onto a 1-foot-by-l-foot block of wood covered with snow, which had been placed on the…