Cross v. CIM Group, LLC

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Joan M. Kenney, J.), entered August 3, 2016, which denied plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability on their Labor Law § 240 (1) claim, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion granted.

Plaintiff ironworker Steven Cross was walking across an installed steel “q-decking” floor on a construction site, when two sheets of the decking floor collapsed, causing him to fall to the floor below. Even though the decking was to become a permanent part of the floor of the building under construction, it is…