Plaintiffs established prima facie that plaintiff Frank Valente's slip and fall on grease on planks that he was using as a makeshift ramp to descend five feet from the top of a building to a scaffold was "the direct consequence of a failure to provide adequate protection against a risk arising from a physically significant elevation differential" and therefore is covered under Labor Law § 240 (1) (Runner v New York Stock Exch., Inc.,
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