One of the play structures at Salmon Bay School has been removed after a two-foot u-shape piece fell on a student.

According to Teresa Wippel with Seattle Public Schools, the principal closed the old equipment and had it assessed after the piece fell onto the second grader’s back. The student was not injured, the father told the principal. Once the equipment was deemed unsafe it was removed.

Wippel spoke with a member of the capital projects group who says there is no money in the budget to replace the old equipment. Some of the parents, according to Wippel, are talking about applying for a “self help grant,” (.pdf) although no decision has been made. (Thank you TumTum for first posting this in the forum.)