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buy zerit The hoisting apparatus for a cage that carries people instead of rock is called a man winder. Sometimes it winds men to their death. On May 11, 1995, in the Vaal Reefs gold mine, 90 miles south of Mponeng, an underground railway engine broke loose. Pulling rail cars after it, the engine plunged 7,000 feet down a shaft onto a two-deck cage, killing the 105 men who were returning to the surface at the end of shift. On May 1, 2008, at Gold Fields' South Deep mine, 30 miles southwest of Johannesburg, nine miners died in a sub-shaft when a winder rope broke and the cage fell 196 feet.