WHDH 7News At Noon January 7, 2016
The mine has proven to be a safe one and never expected Something Like this to happen. One of the steel vertical beams became loose under the elevator, causing it to become stuck. However, the elevator is still down in the shaft and needs to be freed before they know specifically, why. A basket was lowered by crane. One person went down in the basket to put safety harnesses on the miners before all were lifted to safety. There are no injuries. The mine manager says the 17 men are just cold after being stuck 900 feet underground. They huddled together. They did what they could do to keep each o...