The ladder used by plaintiff was not an adequate safety device for the task he was performing, which entailed work at a significant elevation. Regardless of the method employed by plaintiff to remove the air conditioning unit, defendant's failure to provide a safety device sufficient to protect him from the elevation-related risk was a breach of the duty imposed by Labor Law § 240 (1), and a proximate cause of the fall and resulting injury (see Dunn v Consolidated...
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