Miners trapped 900 feet below ground in Finger Lakes salt mine: reports

[LiberalElite]

Source: Syracuse.com

Lansing, N.Y. -- Seventeen workers are stuck 900 feet below ground in an elevator shaft at the Cargill Salt Mine in Lansing, according to reports.

The Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response is sending rescue experts and equipment, according to a tweet from the department. The Ithaca Fire Department said on its Facebook page the workers had been stuck since 10:20 p.m. Wednesday, and that a crane from Auburn has arrived this morning to help in the rescue effort.

No one has been injured, and emergency crews have been in "constant communication" with the workers, a Cargill spokesman told WHCU radio.

Read more: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2016/01/miners_trapped_in_finger_lakes_salt_mine_reports.html

[Scuba]

1. No problem, there've been 10,000 layoffs in Wisconsin alone this year. Replacements galore.

sarcasm thingy here for those without the gene

[Enthusiast]

2. If we send enough jobs to Vietnam we can just do away with OSHA altogether.

Just imagine the headaches we can prevent and the money we can save.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Eight miners have been rescued. Nine are still trapped in an elevator.