Bent beam eyed in salt mine elevator mishap near Ithaca

LANSING, N.Y. (AP) — A spokesman for the owner of a salt mine near Ithaca says it appears a beam that kept an elevator car aligned in the mine shaft bent or broke before 17 miners got stuck in it 90 stories underground.
Spokesman Mark Klein says Cargill Inc. is looking at that possibility as it and authorities explore what went wrong at the Cayuga mine in central New York. The miners were rescued Thursday morning after about 10 hours.
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration