The configuration of the scaffold required workers regularly to travel across an open and unguarded gap of three feet. Moreover, the deposition testimony of the various defendants was less than conclusive on the procedure that workers were supposed to follow when crossing the gap. Defendants' argument focused nearly exclusively on plaintiff's detaching himself from the rope safety line before jumping across the gap; they failed to rebut the evidence that they provided an...
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