DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the appeal from the order dated September 11, 2000, is dismissed, without costs or disbursements; and it is further,
ORDERED that the judgment is reversed, on the law, the facts, and as an exercise of discretion, the plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability pursuant to Labor Law § 240(1) is denied, that branch of the motion of the third-party and second third-party defendant which was pursuant to CPLR 4404 to set aside the jury verdict in favor of the plaintiffs is granted, the orders dated May 28, 1999, and September 11, 2000, are modified accordingly, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for a trial on the issue of liability pursuant to Labor Law § 240(1) and, if liability is found, a new trial on the issue of damages, with costs to abide the event.
The appeal from the intermediate order dated September 11, 2000, must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the entry of judgment in the action (see Matter of Aho, 39 N.Y.2d 241, 248). The issues raised on the appeal from that order are brought up for review and have been considered on the appeal from the judgment (see CPLR 5501[a][1]).
On July 27, 1992, the plaintiff Salvatore Tranchina (hereinafter the injured plaintiff) was performing construction work at premises owned by the defendant Sisters of Charity Health Care System Nursing Home, Inc. (hereinafter Sisters of Charity). The injured plaintiff was standing on an outrigger platform using a concrete vibrator to even out concrete that had been poured for the foundation of the building under construction. The outrigger platform was between 10 and 12 feet above the ground. While performing this work, he fell backward off of the scaffold, allegedly sustaining injuries. The injured plaintiff did not know how the accident occurred, and he did not feel or hear any movement of the platform before he fell. It is undisputed that the outrigger platform was not equipped with railings.
The injured plaintiff and his wife, the plaintiff Maria Tranchina, commenced this action against Sisters of Charity, and the construction manager Barr Barr, Inc. (hereinafter Barr Barr), to recover damages for the injuries he allegedly sustained in the fall. Third-party and second third-party actions were brought against the injured plaintiff's employer, subcontractor JBL/Tacoma Joint Venture (hereinafter Joint Venture) for common-law and contractual indemnification.
The Supreme Court erred in granting the plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability pursuant to Labor Law § 240(1). Since the scaffold or platform from which the injured plaintiff fell did not "move, collapse, or otherwise fail to perform its function of supporting the plaintiff," whether it provided proper protection within the meaning of Labor Law § 240(1) was a question of fact for the jury (Romano v. Hotel Carlyle Owners Corp., 226 A.D.2d 441, 442; see Plass v. Solotoff, 283 A.D.2d 474).
The Supreme Court also erred in denying that branch of Joint Venture's motion which was pursuant to CPLR 4404 to set aside the jury verdict in favor of the plaintiffs. The jury determination of the plaintiffs' damages deviates materially from what would be reasonable compensation, and we exercise our discretion to order a new trial on damages if liability is found under Labor Law § 240(1) (see CPLR 5501[c]; Rubinfeld v. City of New York, 263 A.D.2d 448, 450; Rodriguez v. City of New York, 189 A.D.2d 1166, 180).
Conditional summary judgment was properly granted in favor of the owner, Sisters of Charity, and the construction manager, Barr Barr, on the issue of common-law and contractual indemnification as Joint Venture failed to show that its liability was anything but vicarious (see Werner v. East Meadow Union Free School Dist., 245 A.D.2d 367, 369).
The defendants' remaining contentions are without merit.
SMITH, J.P., O'BRIEN, McGINITY and CRANE, JJ., concur.