The record establishes that defendants, as a matter of law, failed to "give proper protection" to plaintiff and that the violation of Labor Law § 240 (1) was the proximate cause of plaintiff's injuries. Plaintiff was directed to lower a scaffold several stories down to his foreman. The scaffold was not secured to anything other than plaintiff's body. As the motion court correctly found, plaintiff's "body became a counterweight to the scaffold and his body had to be used...
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