Children dead by toppling cabinets: Ikea warns – Yahoo! News

Separately, two toddlers have died because of the type of Ikea cabinets Malm fell over. Another certainly were four people in the US hurt by falling Malmkasten. Ikea warns: make cabinets securely to the wall or keep children away

One of the victims was a 2-year old boy from West Chester in Pennsylvania.. He came in February last year to lay down between his bed and a Malmkast with six drawers. The boy died of his injuries

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The other baby was a boy of 23 months (almost 2 years) from Snohomish in Washington. He received a failing cabinet with three drawers on itself when the cabinet fell.

Ikea warns that the boxes must be firmly put on the wall when children come near the cabinets. “They’re unstable if you do not stick to the wall,” says the CPSC.

There are according to AP news agency sold a total of about 65 million Malmkasten. About 14 of them are on the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) or Ikea complained because they fell. Since 1989, three people died because other Ikea cabinets

fell over. In the Netherlands there were known to have no accidents happened with Ikea cabinets.

What do you do when you have such a case?

In the US, mounting brackets distributed to people who already have a Malm cabinet, but in the Netherlands that does not happen. “In the US, every two weeks a child by falling furniture, TVs etc. Therefore, they are there now launched a major campaign, where the action of Ikea part of it,” says Ikea Netherlands.

” In the Netherlands we warn in different ways that people have to fasten their case well: on the website, with articles and in the drawers are stickers with warnings that mounting hardware must be purchased separately, for what you need, among other things dependent on the. wall where you want to put the case against. In the store, we can advise on this. ”

RTL News / AP