Labor Law § 240 (1) imposes absolute liability on all contractors and owners, and their agents, whose failure to provide proper scaffolding, ladders and certain other protective devices results in injuries to workers engaged "in the erection, demolition, repairing, altering, painting, cleaning or pointing of a building or structure" (see, Gordon v Eastern Ry. Supply,
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