World number of Ikea furniture announced Tuesday, June 28 it reminded the United States and Canada, all convenient range Malm following the deaths of children crushed when they have changed. Nearly 36 million furniture are affected: about 29 million in the US and 6.6 million in Canada, according to figures confirmed by US and Canadian authorities and the group. The recalled chests measure about 60 centimeters in height for children and 75 cm models for adult models.
Ikea was informed in March of the death of a young child, after five between 2003 and 2014 , the United States in all cases. “None of these chests was fixed to the wall, according to the information we have,” , while the application manual, stressed the spokesman for Ikea. According to her, “Ikea dressers meet stability requirements in all markets where they are sold.”
According to US authorities, the recalled models are unstable when they don ‘ were not attached to the wall, “posing a major shift of risk (…) which can lead to death or injury of children” says the US agency for consumer safety ( Consumer Product Safety Commission).
Campaign set dressers to the wall
on Monday night, the US media had relayed the testimony of the mother of a dead boy after presumably tried to climb on one of the dressers. In the summer of 2015, Ikea had already launched in the US and Canada a campaign to encourage owners of Malm convenient to fix the wall. But an executive of Ikea told NBC that it was not enough. “Please, remove them from your room” , told the TV station Lars Peterson, president of Ikea US.
The range Malm represents more than half of Ikea dressers sold worldwide in the last thirteen years, 78 million of 147 million.
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