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IKEA issues safety alert on deathtrap
drawers after two kids killed

27m chests are recalled in US

IKEA North America is offering repairs “The chests and dressers can
pose a tip over hazard if not
for 27 million chests of drawers after two securely anchored to the
wall,” the statement said.
children were killed when the dressers A 2-year-old boy from West
Chester, Pennsylvania, died
tipped over on them, the U.S. Consumer in February 2014 when a
six-drawer MALM chest fell
Product Safety Commission said on on him and pinned him to
a bed, the statement said.
Wednesday. A 23-month-old child from
Snohomish, Washington,
The Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, com- was killed in June 2014
when a three-drawer MALM
pany, a unit of Swedish furniture retailer chest tipped over and trapped him.
IKEA and the consumer panel have gotten
IKEA AB, is making available free wall-an- 14 reports of tip over accidents involving
MALM chests, resulting in four injuries.
choring kits for its MALM three- and four- IKEA also knows of three other reports of
deaths since 1989 from tip overs involving
drawer chests, two styles of other models of IKEA chests and dressers,
the statement said.
six-drawer MALM chests, About 7 million MALM chests and 20
million other IKEA chests and dressers
and for other chests of are involved in the repair program. The
MALM chests were sold starting in 2002
drawers and dressers, at a price ranging from about US$80 to
US$200.

the commission said in

a statement.

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