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[Loctavus]

I've had some problems when digging deep pits, mostly with injuries to my miners.

Digging it all as up/down staircases and then channelling it used to be fine, even without dumping the resulting stone. I've now ended up loosing miners to injuries, and I'm not even sure *how* they're hurting themselves.

Not even bruses and then suddenly I get a message someone's been found dead. Then later on, another one ends up in bed with her leg fractured in two places.

After experiencing the same thing on an earlier fort, I dumped the stone before ordering the stairs to be channelled out and it still happened.

I'm only channelling one layer at a time, so it can't be a simple fall to the level below. I don't suppose there is a way to get things like collisions to always show up in the combat logs? They do get recorded, but only if the thing has been fighting recently.

[slothen]

1-z level collisions from falling typically don't cause injury.  Channeling can be dangerous.  Often I intend to channel 1 level at a time, but I look at other z-levels while designating and end up channeling 2 levels at once, resulting in injury.  If your fortress or pit design allows you to dig the whole thing out and use a controlled collapse, that really is the best option. This doesn't work when a controlled collapse would wreck other parts of your fort though.

[Loctavus]

I don't think it's me highlighting 2 or more z levels, I'm quite specifically doing it a layer at a time, largely to avoid any stair fragments being left behind. I am wondering if it's something to do with the fact I have 4+ miners scrabbling across the staircase as it's being removed though.

The weird thing is the blood and corpses keep turning up several z levels down. Unless that's the guys making a break for a bed before expiring.

[OhGodSpidersNo]

Are you digging out the surface level? Maybe boulders or trees are crushing your guys.