This boy’s mom now wants to nail the nursery to the wall.
A 1-year-old boy in the UK had to be hospitalized after a nursery care worker accidentally splashed cosmetic glue in his eye while fixing her nails.
“I’m angry and upset. I put all my trust in them and then this happens,” the toddler’s mother, Aimee Culverhouse, 18, told Triangle News. The freak accident occurred Sept. 23 at the First Steps Day Nursery in Skipton, North Yorkshire, where her son, Jack, had been going three days a week since he was 3 months old while she went to school.
The “furious” parent said she learned of the sticky situation after the day care’s staff called her at college, where she’s studying public service, to inform her that Jack had “glue in his eye.”
Culverhouse initially thought it was “PVA glue,” used in arts and crafts. However, upon arriving at the Airedale hospital where Jack was, she learned that the culprit was the “nail glue” that people employ to get their acrylic claws to stick.
![“Apparently her [the employee's] nail had broken and she went to pick up my son and splashed the glue in his eye," described a "furious" Culverhouse.](https://i0.wp.com/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/10/baby-eyes-glue-nursery-staff-nails-07.jpg?resize=785%2C589&ssl=1 "‘Traumatized’ toddler hospitalized after nursery worker squirts nail glue in his eye 2")
And that was only the tip of the iceberg. The hospital had told her that the tot had knocked the glue off the counter, only for staff to inform her a week later that the fiasco happened because an employee had picked him up with the cosmetic adhesive on her hand, the distraught mom told the outlet.
“Apparently her nail had broken and she went to pick up my son and splashed the glue in his eye,” explained Culverhouse.
Representatives for the First Steps nursery said in a statement that the unnamed woman’s fake nail had come loose so she attempted to re-stick it while holding Jack and ended up inadvertently squirting him, Triangle reported.
The aghast parent was subsequently referred to an eye specialist, where doctors “weren’t 100% sure whether he’d got it in his eye or not,” she said.
Thankfully, it appeared that the injury was only superficial. “Luckily he had an instant reaction to close his eye so he didn’t get it in there,” said Culverhouse, adding that her son’s sight fortunately “won’t be affected” by the accident.
While Jack might have come away physically unscathed, his mom says the adhesive accident has left him “traumatized.” “He used to sleep through the night perfectly and now he’s just scared,” said the enraged Brit, who plans to sue the nursery for neglect.
First Steps defended themselves in their statement. “We acted immediately when the incident happened, with staff giving first aid and on paramedics’ advice when we phoned for an ambulance, we took the child to hospital for treatment,” they claimed. “We take the care and safety of all the children at our nursery extremely seriously, it is our main priority.”
The nursery has since sacked the guilty party, per the statement. “The member of staff involved was immediately suspended from work and following our investigation was ultimately dismissed,” they said.
Meanwhile, the Office For Standards in Education inspected the facility on Oct. 10 and determined First Steps had responded to the incident appropriately and that there was no fault with the way the nursery was run.
“This was an isolated incident and the first time we have had any incident in over 25 years of operation,” First Steps wrote. “We are relieved that the child involved is recovering well.”