Plaintiff, a steel worker, was injured during the construction of a 19-story condominium building. At the time of the accident, plaintiff was standing on the eighth floor of the structure. He was assisting in landing steel reinforcing bars on that floor, which were being lowered from the twelfth to the eighth floor by a crane. During the descent, the crane's cable struck a bundle of several hundred 4-inch-by-4-inch-by-16-foot wooden beams known as stringers or reshore. The...
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