All boys died within a span of two years.
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“The global IKEA Secure It! campaign is developed to create awareness of the risk of furniture tip-overs and how to prevent it from happening”. They have caused death to children below the age of 4 since 1989.
Suburban Philadelphia toddler Curren Collas was crushed to death in 2014.
“As soon as I opened the door I knew something was wrong”, she wrote on the blog.
“The dresser was completely flipped over”. Then I saw that his body was trapped underneath the dresser. “At that point I started screaming”. “Accidents related to furniture tipping over is a serious home safety issue for the entire home funishing industry and IKEA is committed to take the lead in addressing this challenge”.
The Swedish retailer announced the recall Tuesday, saying the furniture can pose “a tip-over and entrapment hazard that can result in death or injuries to children” if it is not properly anchored to a wall.
According to the Inquirer the recall applies to some 29 million dressers, some of which were sold up to 10 years ago.
She is suing Ikea, claiming the company failed to warn customers that the “front-heavy” dressers were potentially unsafe. It had been purchased years before, in 2012.
The dressers “don’t look unsafe”, Feldman said to the Star Tribune, “but when you load them up with clothing and you allow them to be in a bedroom with a small child … it’s Russian roulette”.
The dressers have been known to fall over if they are not fastened to the wall, and the issue was already linked to the death of two toddlers that spurred Ikea to launch a fix program in July 2015. The most recent account is from February this year. “This product needed to come off the market”, Consumer Federation of America’s Rachel Weintraub told CBS News. But after details of McGee’s death surfaced, the Consumer Product Safety Commission declared, after a May meeting, that the anchors were insufficient.
The CPSC says people should stop using the recalled chests and dressers that are not property anchored to a wall.
This is the latest string of bad news for Ikea.
The Swedish furniture giant Ikea has said that one of its most popular cabinets will not be recalled in the United Kingdom and Ireland despite its involvement in the deaths of three toddlers.
“The Ikea said in its statement that while several thousand customers had ordered the tethering kit, “…it is clear that there are still unsecured products in customers’ homes, and we believe that taking further action is the right thing to do”. In 2015, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of the MALM chests, but customers at that time were asked to install a wall anchoring fix kit, and were told not to return the drawers.
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It was immediately unclear how numerous chests and dressers being recalled are from the Malm collection.
