Wired Glass Injuries and Lawsuits

  • 14 year old Jason Hubben of Edmonton bled to death on September 11,  2001 when an artery in his leg was severed behind the knee in a tragic broken wired glass incident in his school. He was a young student at St Kevin Junior High. The school now annually presents a Jason Hubben Sportsmanship Award to grade 9 students in his honour.

    14 year old Jason Hubben bled to death after impact with wired glass in his school.

    14 year old Jason Hubben bled to death after impact with wired glass in his school.

  • The Ontario School Board Insurance Exchange has a Risk Management Advisory on unsafe glass. It says wired glass can be extremely dangerous and can cause horrible injuries. It notes that over 13 years there were 107 claims against schools for glass injuries costing nearly $3.2 million.
  • A student, Sean Lloyd, filed a $5 million lawsuit on April 29, 2014 against Halton Catholic District School Board. The student badly lacerated his arm pushing through wired glass installed in a door. The lawsuit alleges the school board was negligent in failing to replace wired glass with safer materials.

    Sean LLoyd suffered severed tendons and arteries due to wired glass. Photo courtesy www.TorontoSun.com

    Sean Lloyd suffered severed tendons and arteries due to wired glass. Photo courtesy www.TorontoSun.com

  • Jaiden Hyland smashed through a wired glass window at his school in the Toronto District School Board in 2013 and suffered serious facial lacerations and disfigurement.

    Jaiden Hyland

    Jaiden Hyland

  • A lawsuit was filed against the Toronto District School Board in July 2010 by a student, Ravelle Sidial, after he went through a wired glass door in his school and suffered severed tendons in his right hand and severed an artery. He sued the school and school board for negligence.
  • In 2009, Devon King pushed his arm through a wired glass door at the Days Inn hotel in Kingston and suffered permanent and serious injury to his shoulder and arm. He sued the hotel for negligence.

    Devon King

    Devon King

  • In 2007, Tyler Dickie pushed his arm through a wired glass door at his high school in Amherst, NS and suffered permanent nerve damage and loss of function limiting his career options. In 2017 the Toronto Star reported on Tyler Dickie’s lawsuit against the school board, the owner of the school and the manufacturer and installer of the school’s doors.

    Tyler Dickie

    Tyler Dickie bleeding after crashing through wired glass

  • It has been reported that insurance companies have started to mandate that school boards replace wired glass with safer options.
  • Global News 16×9 reported in Jan 2016 that OSBIE had 114 claims arising from wired glass injuries over the last 14 years and paid out $5.8 million. They also report that TDSB has had 9 wired glass injuries in the past 5 years and will no longer use wired glass in any new schools.