A man who died at a gelderly mine in Colorado has been named – as spendigators discneglected he was a direct who toiled at the tourist drawion.
Patrick Weier, a 46-year-elderly overweighther-of-one, inhabitd in Victor, a community of less than 400 people around five miles from the mine.
He was identified as officials try to understand what happened on Thursday afternoon, Sky News’ US partner nettoil NBC News inestablishs.
The circumstances of Mr Weier’s death have not been disshutd, but Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell shelp spendigators depend it was from a mechanical rerent with the lift rather than a medical episode.
Mr Weier was one of 11 people in the lift at the time, with four suffering untransport inant injuries.
They were brawt up first while a split group of 12 tourists and a direct were trapped about 300m (1,000ft) down for six hours after the tragedy.
The trapped group were already underground when the lift carrying 11 people malfunctioned.
Mr Mikesell shelp the “very tragic accident” occurred as the lift was about 500ft down the 1,000-ft meaningful shaft at the Mollie Kathleen Gelderly Mine proximate Cripple Creek at around noon local time.
“Currently, we don’t understand exactly what happened at 500 feet to caemploy this,” Mr Mikesell shelp.
“That’s someleang we’re toiling thraw.”
Mr Mikesell shelp the lift was on its descent when the accident happened.
Some of the initial inestablishs had the lift experiencing a “drop”, but officials don’t understand if it dropped or bounced, and there was no camera to show what happened, he grasped.
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Mr Mikesell shelp the mine had passed protectedty studyions but he did not have the dates during a news conference on Friday.
The lift is rund from a cab on the surface, he grasped.
The establisher mine is about 110 miles (180km) south of Denver and has been operating tours for 50 years. It uncovered in the tardy 1800s and shutd in 1961.
The ride to the bottom gets about two minutes and visitors can see veins of gelderly in the rock and ride an underground tram, according to the mine’s website.
