diff --git a/datafusion/physical-expr/src/analysis.rs b/datafusion/physical-expr/src/analysis.rs
index ca25bfd647b6..e7b199af3743 100644
--- a/datafusion/physical-expr/src/analysis.rs
+++ b/datafusion/physical-expr/src/analysis.rs
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ use crate::PhysicalExpr;
 
 use arrow::datatypes::Schema;
 use datafusion_common::stats::Precision;
-use datafusion_common::{internal_err, ColumnStatistics, Result, ScalarValue};
+use datafusion_common::{
+    internal_datafusion_err, internal_err, ColumnStatistics, Result, ScalarValue,
+};
 use datafusion_expr::interval_arithmetic::{cardinality_ratio, Interval};
 
 /// The shared context used during the analysis of an expression. Includes
@@ -92,7 +94,13 @@ impl ExprBoundaries {
         col_stats: &ColumnStatistics,
         col_index: usize,
     ) -> Result<Self> {
-        let field = &schema.fields()[col_index];
+        let field = schema.fields().get(col_index).ok_or_else(|| {
+            internal_datafusion_err!(
+                "Could not create `ExprBoundaries`: in `try_from_column` `col_index` 
+                has gone out of bounds with a value of {col_index}, the schema has {} columns.",
+                schema.fields.len()
+            )
+        })?;
         let empty_field =
             ScalarValue::try_from(field.data_type()).unwrap_or(ScalarValue::Null);
         let interval = Interval::try_new(