One person was killed and 12 people were rescued after being trapped for about six hours at the bottom of a former Colorado gold mine when an elevator malfunctioned at the tourist site, authorities said.
The elevator was descending into the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine near the town of Cripple Creek when it had a mechanical problem around 500 feet (152 meters) beneath the surface, creating a “severe danger for the participants,” Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell said.
The 12 adults who were trapped about 1,000 feet (305 meters) below ground had access to water and used radios to communicate with authorities, who told them there was an elevator issue, Mikesell said.
I feel like if someone is supposed to be inspecting things daily that there should be an easily accessible record of those inspections.
There’s a AvE video about a gondola where the inspector/maintenance engineer left the maintenance clamps on one of the emergency brakes that kept tugging on a cable. (This thing keeps the brakes open).
When something else failed, the emergency brakes never closed on the cable and it ended up just being a box of arms and legs at the bottom of the hill.
My point is it’s never one guys fault, a lot of things failed for it come to this one guy being allowed to leave the maintenance equipment on for months
I used to love AvEs videos before he got on the antivax conspiracy theorist train. Is he still doing that?
Haven’t seen a video like that. I don’t watch a lot because I’m not interested in all the tooling and stuff. Sad to hear such a sensible guy spewing that shit.
Ah, yeah, I used to watch him for the tool videos and then when covid happened he got super into antivax conspiracy stuff and was a proud vocal supporter of the convoy antivax protest. That’s when I finally unsubbed.
Yeah but who knows what qualifies as an inspection. It might have just been an employee walking the route every morning before letting customers. Checking air quality is probably the most important thing to do frequently.