Plaintiff injured his hand while moving a large fan coil box, which he did without the assistance of others. The court properly dismissed the Labor Law § 200 and common-law negligence claims as against all defendants, since plaintiff's injury was caused not by a dangerous condition on the work site, but by the method or manner in which he chose to accomplish the task of moving the object (see Lombardi v Stout,
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