Rescue crews pulled 17 miners to the surface on Thursday morning after they spent the night trapped in an elevator 900 feet below ground at a road salt mine in central New York.

Mark Klein, a spokesman for Cargill Inc., the company based in Minnesota that operates the mine, said there were no reported injuries as crews carried out the rescue. He said the mine would be closed for the rest of the week so the company could investigate how the elevator malfunctioned.

Mr. Klein said that the men were on their way into work when they became trapped in the elevator access shaft at around 10 p.m. Wednesday. Rescue crews were able to send water down to the workers and communicate with them through radio devices, Mr. Klein said.

Shortly after 7 a.m., the Ithaca Fire Department that four miners had been rescued from the mine in Lansing, N.Y., which is near Ithaca and about an hour’s drive south of Syracuse. Medical crews were evaluating the rescued miners, the department said. The Ithaca Fire Department said that the Lansing Fire Department and other employees at the mine were assisting in the rescue.

According to Cargill’s website, the mine produces road salt that is shipped throughout the northeastern United States. Mr. Klein said that the company operates two other road salt mines, one in Louisiana and the other in Ohio. The mine in Lansing employs about 200 people.