Plaintiff Janusz Klapa was employed by former third-party defendant United National Environmental Services Co., Inc., which had contracted with defendants to remove asbestos from one of their buildings. Plaintiff was injured when he fell from a scaffold that did not contain any guardrails while he was engaged in such asbestos removal.
The IAS Court found that plaintiff had made a prima facie case that Labor Law § 240 (1) had been violated and that any
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