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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 01:02:55+00:00

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In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (David B. Vaughan, J.), dated January 6, 2016. The order denied the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability on the cause of action alleging a violation of Labor Law § 240(1) insofar as asserted against the defendant MJRB Kings Highway Realty, LLC.
ORDERED that the order is reversed, on the law, with one bill of costs, and the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability on the cause of action alleging a violation of Labor Law § 240(1) insofar as asserted against the defendant MJRB Kings Highway Realty, LLC, is granted.
Under Labor Law § 240(1), owners and general contractors, and their agents, have a nondelegable duty to provide safety devices necessary to protect workers from risks inherent in elevated work sites (see Barreto v Metropolitan Transp. Auth., 25 N.Y.3d 426, 433; McCarthy v Turner Constr., Inc., 17 N.Y.3d 369, 374; Probst v 11 W. 42 Realty Invs., LLC, 106 A.D.3d 711, 711). To succeed on a cause of action under Labor Law § 240(1), a plaintiff must establish that the defendant violated its duty and that the violation proximately caused the plaintiff's injuries (see Barreto v Metropolitan Transp. Auth., 25 N.Y.3d at 433; Vivar v 441 Realty, LLC, 128 A.D.3d 810, 810). A worker's comparative negligence is not a defense to a cause of action under Labor Law § 240(1) and does not effect a reduction in liability (see Blake v Neighborhood Hous. Servs. of N.Y. City, 1 N.Y.3d 280, 286; Cano v Mid-Valley Oil Co., Inc., 151 A.D.3d 685, 690; Robinson v National Grid Energy Mgt., LLC, 150 A.D.3d 910, 912; Garzon v Viola, 124 A.D.3d 715, 716-717). When, however, the worker's own conduct is the sole proximate cause of the accident, no recovery under Labor Law § 240(1) is available (see Robinson v East Med. Ctr., LP, 6 N.Y.3d 550, 554; Blake v Neighborhood Hous. Servs. of N.Y. City, 1 N.Y.3d at 290).

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