IKEA's "Killer Dressers" Are Causing Untimely Deaths of Toddlers

In the past few years, there has been news that surfaced involving the threats that Ikea furniture has caused. Some even led to the death of children.

There had been multiple incidents that included the death of children were mostly from Ikea-designed dressers. These incidents had resulted in millions of product recalls by the company.

Despite the millions of IKEA killer dressers recalls, children are still getting accidentally harmed by the company's products.

On the 14th of May in the year 2017, Meghan DeLong, the mother of a two-year-old had found her son named Conner crushed by Ikea's Hemnes dresser designed by Ikea. The kid lost his life from the incident. Based on the documents from the public court, DeLong had filed a case against Ikea.

In 2016, Ikea had recalled approximately 29 million of all its IKEA killer dressers after six children were reported to have died from being crushed by one of their furniture. However, the dresser that tragically took the life of Connor DeLong was not recalled by Ikea. The Hemnes dresser had also victimized twin boys. Luckily, the two boys survived the accident.

In the past decade, Ikea had recalled multiple types of furniture. Most of the recalled Ikea products were children's furniture such as tall chairs, bedroom light for children, children's beds, children's swings, and children's tents. Some of the recalls made were primarily preventive in nature and most of the recalls of products were not caused by reports of their products harming children. Some of the reports of minor and major injuries involving the products of Ikea include broken limbs, scratches, and strangulation.

There was also an incident in the year 2016 that a child lost his life from the Malm dresser of Ikea. The IKEA killer dressers that took the child's life were not recalled by the company. Ikea had suggested to their consumers to secure or attach securely to the wall of their furniture.

There are other companies with the same incident. Wal-Mart, Amazon, and Target were also reported on the news to have recalled some of their sold dressers.

According to a report by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in December 2018, approximately 14,000 children attained injuries from tip-over accidents with furniture and appliances from the year 2015 to 2017. It was also reported that at least 7,600 people acquired injuries from tip-over accidents from furniture from 2015 to 2017.

The Consumer Product and Safety Commission is an agency that regulates the national activity of product recalls.

On the 19th of November in the year 2016, the parents of a three-year-old toddler found their daughter crushed by a dresser. The kid was rushed to a medical center. Unfortunately, another toddler lost life from a deadly tip-over accident that day. The name of the toddler was Harper Ayva Fried. After her death, her parents established a website which they named "Harper Smiles". The website aims to help provide information to people regarding the dangers of tip-over accidents.

Currently, there is a law that requires sellers of certain types of furniture to include wall anchors in their product's package.