Health and Safety Alert - Incident at Heartwood School - June 2021 (gate pinch point)

27th September, 2021

June 2021 What happened​

An incident recently occurred in a Norfolk school where a pupil suffered serious injury. The pupil was waiting to pass through a playground gate and had their hand on the hinge side of the gate post. Another pupil opened the gate fully and the gate / gate post caught the pupil’s fingers in the pinch point, resulting in a serious injury.