Ordered that the order is affirmed, with one bill of costs.
The plaintiff Mitchell E. Bloch (hereinafter the injured plaintiff), a police officer in the Organized Crime Bureau of the New York City Police Department, was injured when he fell from a telephone pole while removing a pen register device.
The Supreme Court properly dismissed the plaintiffs' Labor Law § 240 (1) claim, as the activity engaged in by the injured plaintiff was not an alteration...
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