Plaintiff was employed as a laborer by defendant Westmont Associates, the general contractor on a public library construction project located at 365 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Plaintiff sustained injury shortly after he removed designated areas of concrete ceiling beams using a jackhammer. As he was handing down tools to a coworker while standing on a scaffold, a portion of the concrete ceiling collapsed. Plaintiff did not fall from the scaffold but was injured by falling...
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