Plaintiff was struck by a caulking gun that he left temporarily on a ladder rung as he was working in a facility owned by defendants. He argues that defendants violated Labor Law § 240 (1) in that they failed to provide him with a scaffold or manlift from which to work and failed to provide a safety device to secure the caulking gun.
Labor Law § 240 (1) applies to falling object cases where the falling of an object is related to a significant risk inherent...
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