Defendant's liability under Labor Law § 240 (1) was established as a matter of law by its failure to provide plaintiff with a safety device that would have prevented his fall from the top of a boiler on which he was positioned in order to weld overhead pipes attached to the boiler (see, Rocovich v Consolidated Edison Co.,
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