diff --git a/crates/openvino/src/blob.rs b/crates/openvino/src/blob.rs
index 5372759..32a8410 100644
--- a/crates/openvino/src/blob.rs
+++ b/crates/openvino/src/blob.rs
@@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ impl Blob {
 
         let mut dimensions = MaybeUninit::uninit();
         try_unsafe!(ie_blob_get_dims(blob, dimensions.as_mut_ptr()))?;
+        // Safety: this assertion is trying to avoid the improbable case where some future version
+        // of the OpenVINO library returns a dimensions array with size different than the one
+        // auto-generated in the bindings; see `struct dimensions` in
+        // `openvino-sys/src/generated/types.rs`. It is not clear to me whether this will return the
+        // statically-expected size or the dynamic size -- this is not effective in the former case.
+        assert_eq!(unsafe { dimensions.assume_init() }.dims.len(), 8);
 
         let mut precision = MaybeUninit::uninit();
         try_unsafe!(ie_blob_get_precision(blob, precision.as_mut_ptr()))?;