Opinion
No. 9331.
January 23, 2007.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Debra A. James, J.), entered April 25, 2006, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted plaintiff's cross motion for summary judgment on liability on his third cause of action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Harrington, Ocko Monk, LLP, White Plains (I. Paul Howansky of counsel), for appellant.
Robert J. Renna, Brooklyn, for respondent.
Before: Tom, J.P., Saxe, Sullivan, Buckley and McGuire, JJ.
Plaintiff building engineer was in the process of repairing; replacing electrical wiring in the ceiling of the 12th floor, in I order to restore lighting to the entire floor, at the time the ladder he was standing on collapsed. The work he was engaged in was more than simply changing a lightbulb, and constituted "repair[s]" within the meaning of Labor Law § 240 (1) ( Piccione v 1165 Park Ave., 258 AD2d 357, lv dismissed NY2d 957 [1999]).