Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
It is well settled that to establish a prima facie violation of Labor Law § 240 (1) a plaintiff must establish that "the statute was violated and that this violation was a proximate cause of his or her injuries" (Sprague v Peckham Materials Corp.,
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