You're clearing a jam on a metal stamping press in a College Point machine shop when the ram cycles without warning. The two-hand safety interlock that should've stopped it was removed during a repair months ago and never put back. In one second, you lose your dominant hand at the wrist. Everyone tells you the same thing: workers' comp is your only remedy against your employer, no matter how careless the shop was. That's usually true — but New York law carves out a narrow exc