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Like how do they board and deboard? Move it flush with the ground for each level?
Work at an underground mine, and the answer is yes. The hoist is operated by a person that has manual control of the cage and there is a cage tender that uses a belling system to tell the hoist operator what to do. The people hoist at mine is 3 tiers, but somewhere around 10-14 feet height of standing room for each tier and with full doors so you can't fall out.
I imagine they squeeze themselves in and out.
Squeeze yes, I'm talking if they have to jump down (or jump up to load).
I would imagine so. What's a little twice-daily six foot drop on the knees of these poor bastards up top?
But maybe it chugged down one level at a time to avoid potential collisions from dropping workers. Can't say that I'm well-read on the subject - or that I really know anything about the subject at all other than that safety regulations in the past were utter dogshit.