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Details of Event: Information from the Mines Inspector's report - 1925: Metalliferous Mines The other fatal accident happened in the dressing plant or a mill at Tyndrum Lead and Zinc Mine, Perthshire. On the top floor of the mill there was a countershaft at a height of 2 ft. 3 in. from the floor. On the countershaft was a clutch to connect the two parts, the clutch being operated by a lever situated at the end of a gangway. The gangway was fenced along both sides but at the end, close to the countershaft, there had been a loose bar which dropped into two wooden sockets and thus closed the gangway. It appeared, however, that the wooden bar had been missing for several months and the absence of fencing at this place had twice commented upon by an Inspector but on each occasion the machinery was idle. A boy employed about the mill had spare time on his hands and went to the end of the gangway, leaning over the revolving shaft so that he could see what was happening on the floor below. His jacket was caught by the projecting key on the clutch and wound round the shaft. Before the machinery could be stopped the boy had been whirled round many times and was so terribly injured that he died six hours later. On the 10th February, 1926, the Manager was prosecuted for not keeping the machinery securely fenced, and was fined £15.