It seems IKEA has decided to “voluntarily” recall 36 million of their shit particle board, slave labor produced products. All it took was the deaths of six innocent children and the government threatening legal action. Executives from IKEA should be prosecuted. They’ve known these products were defective since the early 1990s. I was in the corporate office in the early 1990s when the first child was killed when one of their cheap shabbily made drawers fell on the child. My boss, Mike McDonald, was the CFO and negotiated the payout to the family.
When the top drawers of these crap units are pulled out, the drawer unit falls over. IKEA then started giving out straps to secure the units to the wall, rather than fix the defect. Profits matter more to this “social responsible” company than the lives of children. They’ve been caught using child labor in India to make their rugs. They push the limits of tax laws to avoid taxes. Their products had formaldehyde in them until they were forced to stop.
They still deny responsibility for killing these kids. What a great company.
IKEA recalls 36 million chests and dressers after six deaths
Swedish furniture company IKEA Group [IKEA.UL] is recalling almost 36 million chests and dressers in the United States and Canada but said the products linked to the deaths of six children are safe when anchored to walls as instructed.
The recall covers six models of MALM chests or dressers manufactured from 2002 to 2016 and about 100 other families of chests or dressers that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said could topple over if not anchored securely to walls, posing a threat to children.
“It is simply too dangerous to have the recalled furniture in your home unanchored, especially if you have young children,” CPSC Chairman Elliott Kaye said in a statement on Tuesday.
Tipped-over furniture or television sets kill a U.S. child every two weeks, he added.
IKEA said that the recall was based on a standard applicable in North America for free-standing clothing storage units and that the products meet all mandatory stability requirements in Europe and other parts of the world.
“When attached to a wall the products are safe. We have had no other issues with that in any other country,” said Kajsa Johansson, a spokeswoman for IKEA in Sweden.
IKEA said it had no details on potential costs stemming from the recall.
A recall summary from the company said that the chests and dressers are unstable if not properly anchored to a wall, posing a serious tip-over and entrapment hazard that could result in death or injury to children.
Two U.S. toddlers died in separate 2014 incidents when MALM chests fell on them. A 22-month-old boy was killed last year in a similar incident, which occurred after IKEA had announced a repair program including a free wall-anchoring kit.
None of the furnishings in the fatal incidents had been anchored to a wall.
IKEA had received reports of 41 tip-over incidents involving non-MALM chests that caused 19 injuries and the deaths of three children from 1989 to 2007.
As part of the recall, IKEA is offering refunds or a free wall-anchoring kit.
The U.S. recall covers about 8 million MALM chests and dressers and 21 million other models of chests and dressers. About 6.6 million are being recalled in Canada.
Ikea has sold approximately 147.4 million chests of drawers globally since 1998.
I know – let’s have background checks and a waiting period before you can buy a dresser.
I was wondering when you would post this. Not saying they’re not assholes, they are, the Don Ball’s & Jill Matherson’s of the world prove that IKEA does no due diligence in hiring either, but is there any responsibility on the parents here?
Admin, I think you’re wrong on this one. I have young kids, but I for one don’t want any Consumer Products Safety Commission deciding what I’m allowed to buy because “saaaaafety”! The recall was obviously done under threat of “government legal action” and “the products meet all mandatory stability requirements in Europe and other parts of the world” so they’re not inherently unsafe. It’s the responsibility of the parents to take care of their own kids, to anchor the things to the wall, or to put heavy things in the bottom so they’re, ya know, stable. Get the government out of my kids’ bedrooms!
I think you’re wrong for this reason … it is NOT NORMAL to have to anchor dressers to the wall. We never did. Then again, we bought quality furniture made in N Carolina and made with real wood. You could put a VW in the top drawer, and it wouldn’t tip over.
OTOH, maybe you’re saying the parents should have known they were buying cheap-ass pieces of shit and, as such, should have taken precautions. But, even that’s a stretch, imho. Dressers should simply not fall over on children.
IKEA PRODUCTS KILL AMERICAN CHILDREN
VS
LIBERAL ‘GUN FREE ZONES’ (TARGET RICH ENVIRONMENTS) KILL CHILDREN AND ADULTS
Who is the biggest killer, IKEA or Liberals
Who the fuck ever heard of having to anchor a chest of drawers to a wall to keep it from falling over? That makes it a piece of cabinetry for built-in use only, rather than a freestanding piece of furniture, in my view.
Are their designers rhesus monkeys?
Totally agree with jim, ed, stuck. I never heard of a dresser toppling over in my life, and i would bet every dresser built pre IKEA in the history of the world never had an engineer look at it. Anchor it too the wall. A dresser? I’ve never been to an IKEA. Maybe that’s a good thing.
It doesn’t matter what you build a chest of drawers out of, or who builds it; if a two year old has the inclination and the opportunity to climb up the drawers there is a slim but real chance that it will topple over on them and this might kill the child.
Whether it is an American child (or any other nationality), a child’s death is the ultimate heart-breaking tragedy.
Ikea has sold 36 million of this series of chest of drawers, do the math.
(Sorry to be picky but I think the toll is three, not six.)
Do as much research as you like – you’ll find that Ikea, as corporations go, is about as good as it gets.
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