On February 18, 1988, plaintiff, an electrician, was working on the construction of the North River Water Pollution Control Plant in Manhattan on property owned by the City of New York. Plaintiff and his supervisor had just finished using a mobile "scaffold/power lift" to inspect a conduit suspended from the ceiling. When the lift was returned to its original position, the platform upon which the men stood remained eight feet from the ground. Plaintiff began to descend the...
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