You're on a Queens construction site — maybe a row of townhouses going up in Maspeth, or a commercial build-out in Long Island City. You climb an extension ladder leaned against a column. Somebody bumps the base, the feet skid out on a dusty concrete slab, and you go down hard. By the time the ambulance reaches Elmhurst Hospital, you're looking at a shattered hip and an imaging report that reads 'lumbar burst fracture.' A Labor Law § 240(1) ladder fall case is exactly what Ne