by Joyce Slaton posted in Products & Prizes

IKEA North America and U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that the retailer is recalling 29 million chests and dressers that pose serious tip-over and entrapment hazards. Two toddlers were killed in 2014, and a third toddler in 2015 after 3- and 6-drawer MALM dressers tipped over on them.
That's not all -- IKEA has received reports of 41 non-fatal tip-over incidents involving MALM chests and dressers which resulted in 17 injuries to children between 19 months and 10 years old.
In addition to the three recent MALM deaths, other IKEA chests and dressers have been implicated in 41 more tip-over injuries and 3 other deaths of children aged 20 months to 3 years that stretch all the way back to 1989. After the second MALM death in 2014, IKEA announced a repair program in 2015 in which it sent free wall-anchoring repair kits to consumers who asked for one. But since the number of consumers who received kits -- 300,000 by April of 2015 -- was tiny compared to the millions of MALMs sold, the CPSC and other industry sources pushed for a full recall after the 2015 death. None of the MALM units that caused the deaths in 2014 or 2015 were anchored.
For their part, the parents of the child tragically killed in 2015 said they'd bought their MALM in 2012 and had been unaware of the dangers, or of IKEA's repair program.
The recalled MALM chests were sold from 2002 through June 2016 for between $70 and $200 and inc...