Plaintiff made a prima facie showing that his accident was proximately caused by the absence of safety devices affording adequate protection from the elevation-related risks he faced while hoisting a guiderail in an elevator shaft using a rope and pulley system. Plaintiff testified that he followed the normal procedure of adding slack to the rope in an attempt to free the rail from an obstruction, when he lost control of the rope, and his leg became entangled in coiled rope...
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