Ikea Canada is recalling millions of dressers over concerns the furniture could topple over, following the deaths of six children in the United States.
The list of recalled dressers spans more than a dozen models including Malm, Hemnes, and Brusali, and includes dressers manufactured after January, 2002. The full list of affected dressers is on the Ikea Canada website.
Customers are being advised to immediately tether the dressers to a wall or return the furniture to an Ikea outlet for a refund.
Ikea says it is also working with Health Canada and will now only sell dressers that meet North American standards on “free-standing stability” set by ASTM, a group that sets standards for thousands of consumer products sold around the world.
16 reports of incidents involving Malm dressers that resulted in the deaths of two toddlers and four other serious injuries in the United States. A third child in Minnesota died in February, 2016, after a Malm dresser tipped onto him and pinned him against his bed. Cont. (Video)
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