The fourth group of workers emerge from an elevator Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, after they were stuck overnight in a shaft at the Cayuga Salt Mine in Lansing, N.Y. Cargill Inc. spokesman Mark Klein said all 17 miners have been rescued. (Simon Wheeler/The Ithaca Journal via AP, Pool)
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LANSING, N.Y. (AP) - Crews are preparing to remove the elevator on which more than a dozen central New York mine workers got stranded hundreds of feet underground.
Cargill Inc. spokesman Mark Klein says the Minneapolis-based company's operations in Lansing, New York, are closed again Friday, a day after 17 miners spent up to 10 hours struck on an elevator 900 feet below ground.
The workers were heading to the mine's 2,300-foot deep floor to start their overnight shift late Wednesday when the two-level elevator got stuck. A crane was brought in to drop a basket to the miners and haul them out. The last group of miners was rescued by 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
The foreman of the crane company that helped make the rescue says the elevator will be removed from the shaft so it can be inspected.
The last of 17 Cargill salt miners emerge Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, after being rescued from an elevator stuck 900 feet below the surface at the Cayuga Salt Mine, in Lansing, N.Y. A rescue cage was lowered from a crane to bring them up four at a time. (Simon Wheeler/The Ithaca Journal via AP, Pool)
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The fourth group of workers emerge from an elevator Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, after they were stuck overnight in a shaft at the Cayuga Salt Mine in Lansing, N.Y. Cargill Inc. spokesman Mark Klein said all 17 miners have been rescued. (Simon Wheeler/The Ithaca Journal via AP, Pool)
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