I think the company and families were lucky in that the failure of the elevator occurred when it was empty of people. I hope it wasn't a failure of the elevator shaft itself. Was there any kind of shift of the elevator walls that would cause the lack of function of the elevator?
The worst of the circumstances is the feeling of isolation and vulnerability of the workers. Such failures bring about a reality not usually realized. It is a really terrible circumstance for them.
January 7, 2016
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Emergency crews (click here) were working Thursday morning to free the remaining miners trapped in an elevator more than 70 stories below ground in upstate New York, officials said.
The Ithaca Fire Department said it was helping with the "major rescue" at the Cargill salt mine in Lansing, where 17 miners were stuck overnight.
As of 8 a.m. ET, 12 of the workers were freed, while another five were still below ground, a Cargill spokesman told NBC News.
The workers had been trapped in an elevator 900 feet down an access shaft, the company said...
The worst of the circumstances is the feeling of isolation and vulnerability of the workers. Such failures bring about a reality not usually realized. It is a really terrible circumstance for them.
January 7, 2016
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Emergency crews (click here) were working Thursday morning to free the remaining miners trapped in an elevator more than 70 stories below ground in upstate New York, officials said.
The Ithaca Fire Department said it was helping with the "major rescue" at the Cargill salt mine in Lansing, where 17 miners were stuck overnight.
As of 8 a.m. ET, 12 of the workers were freed, while another five were still below ground, a Cargill spokesman told NBC News.
The workers had been trapped in an elevator 900 feet down an access shaft, the company said...
