diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 20a95ed..1ade710 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 name = "StructArrays"
 uuid = "09ab397b-f2b6-538f-b94a-2f83cf4a842a"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.0"
 
 [deps]
 ConstructionBase = "187b0558-2788-49d3-abe0-74a17ed4e7c9"
 DataAPI = "9a962f9c-6df0-11e9-0e5d-c546b8b5ee8a"
+LightBoundsErrors = "e21c612c-4641-4669-b9c3-3f4360ced9da"
 Tables = "bd369af6-aec1-5ad0-b16a-f7cc5008161c"
 
 [weakdeps]
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ Documenter = "1"
 GPUArraysCore = "0.2"
 InfiniteArrays = "0.15"
 JLArrays = "0.2"
+LightBoundsErrors = "1"
 LinearAlgebra = "1"
 KernelAbstractions = "0.9"
 OffsetArrays = "1"
diff --git a/src/StructArrays.jl b/src/StructArrays.jl
index bef1167..6262df4 100644
--- a/src/StructArrays.jl
+++ b/src/StructArrays.jl
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ include("lazy.jl")
 include("constructionbase.jl")
 include("tables.jl")
 
+using LightBoundsErrors: checkbounds_lightboundserror
+
 # Implement refarray and refvalue to deal with pooled arrays and weakrefstrings effectively
 import DataAPI: refarray, refvalue
 using DataAPI: defaultarray
diff --git a/src/structarray.jl b/src/structarray.jl
index 24ab0fb..b3d4c8c 100644
--- a/src/structarray.jl
+++ b/src/structarray.jl
@@ -342,6 +342,10 @@ map(c -> c[I...], Tuple(cols))
 """
 @inline @generated get_ith(cols::Tup, I...) = :(Base.Cartesian.@ntuple $(fieldcount(cols)) i -> @inbounds cols[i][I...])
 
+function Base.checkbounds(x::StructArray, I...)
+    checkbounds_lightboundserror(x, I...)
+end
+
 Base.@propagate_inbounds Base.getindex(x::StructArray, I...) = _getindex(x, to_indices(x, I)...)
 
 Base.@propagate_inbounds function _getindex(x::StructArray{T}, I::Vararg{Int}) where {T}
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 4484283..99a61cc 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ using LinearAlgebra
 using Test
 using SparseArrays
 using InfiniteArrays
+using LightBoundsErrors: LightBoundsError
 
 import Aqua
 import KernelAbstractions as KA
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ Base.convert(::Type{Millimeters}, x::Meters) = Millimeters(x.x*1000)
     t = StructArray((a = a, b = b))
     @test (@inferred t[2,2]) == (a = 4, b = 7)
     @test (@inferred t[2,1:2]) == StructArray((a = [3, 4], b = [6, 7]))
-    @test_throws BoundsError t[3,3]
+    @test_throws LightBoundsError t[3,3]
     @test (@inferred view(t, 2, 1:2)) == StructArray((a = view(a, 2, 1:2), b = view(b, 2, 1:2)))
     @test @inferred(parentindices(view(t, 2, 1:2))) == (2, 1:2)
     @test_throws ArgumentError parentindices(StructArray((view([1, 2], [1]), view([1, 2], [2]))))