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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Barrett R. Hayes, Respondent, v Crane Hogan Structural Systems, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff. P. S. Bruckel, Inc., Third-Party Defendant-Appellant.
    [601 NYS2d 902]
   Order unanimously affirmed with costs. Memorandum: Third-party defendant P. S. Bruckel, Inc., contends that Supreme Court erred by granting plaintiff's motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability under Labor Law § 240 (1). We disagree. It is undisputed that plaintiff fell while using a cable to lower himself from a scaffold attached to a bridge some 16 feet above the ground. The availability of a ladder at the worksite does not constitute a defense (see, Heath v Soloff Constr., 107 AD2d 507, 512). (Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Erie County, Whelan, J.—Summary Judgment.) Present—Pine, J. P., Fallon, Boomer, Davis and Boehm, JJ.