IKEA Admits Products Can Kill Children, Offers Free Solution

Ikea is offering free wall anchoring kits after it was revealed that some of their wardrobes can fall and crush young children.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission warned people to stop using children's dressers and wardrobes 23 and a half inches or taller and dressers 29 and a half inches or taller also posed a hazard. The warnings came after the agency received reports of the deaths of two children who were trapped and killed by the products.

The models affected are Malm 3, 4 and 6-drawer dressers and wardrobes. There are roughly 7 million Malm style dressers and 20 million other styles of IKEA dressers and wardrobes that fall under the program.

IKEA is offering the kits at a website set up to deal specifically with the issue. The CPSC says that people should put their units in storage or lock them away until they can get the fastening system in place.

Both deaths cited as the imepetus for the program took place in 2014. One involved a 2-year-old boy from West Chester, Pennsylvania, and the other involved a 23-month-old from Snohomish Washington.

The chests began being sold in 2002 and ranged in prices from $80-$200.

The agency says that a child dies every two weeks and is injured every 24 minutes by objects such as furniture or TVs tipping over and falling on them.