A field for kids in Swampscott, Massachusetts is now closed because of broken glass.
Dozens of glass shards recently came to the surface at the Swampscott Elementary School field. One student ended up getting cut.
The school committee chair said they were draining the field recently when glass buried underneath was brought up. After the student was cut, the field was immediately shut down. The district took samples of the field and found an extensive amount of glass.
"Some of these two-by-two-by-six squares had up to nine pieces of glass in that one sample," Max Kasper, the facilities director, said at a town council meeting.
"We believe the glass was part of the soil that was in existence prior to the school building project, and that it surfaced during the excavation that took place for the drainage installation," Swampscott School Committee Chair Glenn Paster said in a statement Wednesday.
"We are in the process of hiring a landscape architect to determine the best path forward. We are also determining what legal options we might have in order to mitigate the cost of the repairs that will be necessary."
Jenna Deiulis has a first grader at the school. She said her son enjoys playing on the fields and playgrounds.
"I don't know why when they were building the school that they didn't check that out," she told WBZ-TV. "I just hope that the school comes up with a plan. It's probably going to be expensive to get rid of it."
Swampscott resident Jay Videtta is concerned about how the incident even happened.
"How does glass get there? And you cover it over, sooner or later it's going to come out," Videtta said.
