Passaretti v. Cerra

It is provided in the Labor Law, section 240, that scaffolding used in the erection of a building shall be “ constructed, placed and operated as to give proper protection ” to laborers using such scaffolding. The board, eight inches wide, placed across the stairway well on the third floor was a scaffold within the meaning of the statute. (Ross v. D., L. & W. R. R. Co., 231 N. Y. 335; Caddy v. Interborough B. T. Co., 195 id. 415; Convey v. Finn, 130 App. Div. 440.) It crossed from one side of the building to the other; there was no other way of getting from one side of the building to the…