Questions for IKEA after dresser kills third toddler in 2 years
by Joyce Slaton posted in Products & Prizes
Apple Valley, Minnesota, mom Janet McGee thought her 22-month-old Theodore "Ted" McGee was taking a nap in his bedroom. But when she checked on him, to her horror she saw he wasn't in his bed -- he was underneath the 6-drawer IKEA dresser that toppled onto him, killing him February 14, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
"They didn't hear the dresser fall," the Inquirer quotes attorney Alan Feldman as saying. "They didn't hear Ted scream."
The death has raised questions about IKEA's "repair program," which the company launched in 2015 after the deaths of two more toddlers, 2-year-old Camden Ellis of Bothell, Washington, and 2-year-old Curren Collas of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Attorneys for the families of the toddlers who were killed called IKEA's recall program "inadequate," noting that the McGees had never heard of the IKEA campaign, and didn't know the risks of a dresser they'd bought before even having a child together.
IKEA has issued 300,000 wall-anchoring kits to consumers who purchased 3-, 4-, and 6-drawer chests, including the popular MALM brand, amongst other brands. That sounds like a lot. Until you compare that to the number of dressers and chests affected by the it-isn't-a-recall-it's-a-repair-program: a total of 27 million in the United States, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Here are the 4 MALM dressers subject to the repair program:
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