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| Yarmouth Castle on the Isle of Wight |
English Heritage has accepted a Crown Censure, equivalent to a criminal prosecution, for safety failings after a 12-year-old boy was badly cut when a glass floor panel broke during a family visit.
The youngster jumped on a glass viewing panel set into the floor, designed to show stonework beneath. The panel, which had been in place for many years and walked on by thousands of people over that time, splintered into shards and the boy suffered severe lacerations to his left leg from the jagged glass.
The incident was investigated by the HSE which formally administered a Crown Censure of English Heritage for failing to take reasonable steps to protect members of the public from risk.
HSE found the glass floor panel broke because it was not made of toughened or laminated glass. English Heritage had not assessed specifically the risk of glass floor panels breaking at any of its properties since it was created as a body in 1984, although there had been regular visual inspections of the glass panels which would have identified any obvious damage.
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