Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The plaintiff allegedly was injured when, while trimming tree limbs on the defendants' property, a tree limb struck him and the ladder upon which he was standing, causing him to fall to the ground.
Tree trimming does not fall within the ambit of Labor Law coverage because a tree is not a building or a structure (see, Lombardi v Stout,
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