Decedent met his death on June 20, 1962, while working as a carpenter, employed by the State's contractor, then engaged in erecting piers or vertical concrete columns for the approach to a bridge across the Flushing River, in connection with the construction of the Whitestone Expressway. A platform or scaffold had been erected by employees of the contractor on the tops of the pier columns, 25 feet above the ground. It is undisputed that there...
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