DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with one bill of costs payable to the respondents appearing separately and filing separate briefs.
The plaintiff John Breeden, a telephone repairman, was injured when he fell from a ladder while investigating a nonworking telephone line. The work performed by the injured plaintiff at the time of the accident was routine maintenance of a nonworking telephone line and did not constitute "erection, demolition, repairing, altering, painting, cleaning or pointing of a building" within the meaning of Labor Law § 240(1) so as to bring him within the protective ambit of the statute (see, Joblon v. Solow, 91 N.Y.2d 457; Pound v. A.V.R. Realty Corp., 271 A.D.2d 424).
The injured plaintiff was not covered by Labor Law § 241(6), also because no construction, excavation, or demolition work was being performed (see, Rogola v. Van Bourgondien, 263 A.D.2d 535; Luthi v. Long Is. Resource Corp., 251 A.D.2d 554).
The plaintiffs' remaining contentions are without merit.