Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, and that branch of the defendants' motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the cause of action alleging a violation of Labor Law § 240 (1) is denied.
The plaintiff, a journeyman carpenter, alleges that he was injured when he fell from a 12-foot A-frame ladder on which he was standing while he was installing sheetrock over a doorway in the basement of P.S.70 in Queens...
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