Seventeen salt miners who had been trapped in an elevator shaft at an upstate New York mine have been rescued, officials said Thursday. The miners became trapped roughly 244 meters to 274 meters down the elevator shaft overnight, when a lift malfunctioned at Cargill's Cayuga Salt Mine in Lansing, the Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response said. The department said that the workers were not injured. A spokesperson for Cargill said that the company would launch an investigation into why the elevator malfunctioned. "We probably won't operate the mine for the rest of the week as we investigate the cause," said Mark Klein, spokesperson for the global commodities trader.
