The window washing rig, which moves around the building on rails, consists of a carriage with five or six permanently affixed metal steps on one of its sides leading up to a scaffold in the carriage on which the worker stands when washing windows. Plaintiff alleges that he went up to the roof of the building where the rig was stored, and, as he was climbing the steps to get to the scaffold, the handrail broke, causing him to fall four feet to the roof floor. The steps, which...
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