The man who was killed after an elevator malfunctioned at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Colorado on Oct. 10 has been identified by officials as Victor resident Patrick Weier, a mine guide and father of a 7-year-old son.

Patrick Weier, a Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine tour guide, died after being trapped for several hours underground due to an elevator malfunction.

A tour guide died at a Colorado gold mine after an elevator experienced a mechanical issue hundreds of feet below ground, trapping a dozen tourists for several hours, authorities said. The tourists became stuck in the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine attraction in Cripple Creek on Thursday,

The person who died in an accident on Thursday inside Colorado's Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine was a 46-year-old tour guide.

The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine near Cripple Creek in Teller County where rescue personnel are working to free 12 people who were trapped during a tour about 1,000 feet underground. One person is known to have died after what officials are calling an equipment malfunction.

Investigators were trying to figure out Friday what led an elevator to malfunction at a former Colorado gold mine, killing one person.

The man who died in a Colorado mine elevator accident was a 46-year-old tour guide with a 7-year-old son, officials said as investigators look at what occurred.

The person who died in an elevator incident at a Rocky Mountains mining tourism site in Colorado this week was identified Friday as a guide at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine Tour.

A tour guide for the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine Tour in Colorado was identified as the lone death following an elevator mishap that trapped 23 others who were rescued.