Plaintiff, an employee of the general contractor on a renovation project, was assigned to caulk windows on the sixth floor of the outside of a building owned by defendant City of New York. To perform this work, plaintiff stood in a basket, which was attached by a cable to the boom of a crane. While the basket was in the process of being lowered, it suddenly dropped several feet causing plaintiff to fall within the basket and sustain injuries.
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