IKEA RECALL LAWYER
The product liability lawyers at SHOOP | A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORPORATION
remind consumers of a significant product recall involving over 29 million
units of IKEA furniture. IKEA North America is instituting thIs massive
product recall in cooperation and in conjunction with the United States
Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC"). The recall involves
all IKEA chests and dressers that do not comply with the performance requirements
of industry standard ASTM F2057-14.
WHO WE ARE
The product liability lawyers at SHOOP | A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORPORATION
have successfully represented clients both nationally and internationally
in cases involving defective products and have recovered millions upon
millions of dollars. There is no law firm more passionate about removing
defective products from the marketplace than us - particularly those products
marketed to and/or particularly injurious to children.
THE RECALLED PRODUCT
These IKEA children’s and adult chests and dressers have associated
product defects of instability. More specifically, these chests and dressers
are unstable if they are not anchored to a wall, thereby posing a very
real tip-over and/or entrapment hazard for children that could cause traumatic
injury or death.
Approximately eight (8) million MALM chests and dressers and another twenty-one
(21) million additional children’s chests and dressers in the U.S.
The nearly 30 million units of recalled chests and dressers include the
following models:
- MALM 3-drawer;
- MALM 4-drawer;
- MALM 5-drawer; and
- MALM three 6-drawer models and other such children’s and adult chests
and dressers.
By way of background, in July of 2015, IKEA announced a repair program
(not a formal, product recall) for these unstable, chests and dressers.
The attempted "repair" included a wall-anchor kit for these
various MALM chests and dressers and other such unstable IKEA chests and
dressers. Tragically, two (2) separate fatalities involving these MALM
chests and dressers occurred prior to the repair program:
- In February of 2014, a two-year-old child in Pennsylvania died after a
six-drawer MALM chest fell over, pinning the child fatally against his bed; and
- In June of 2014, another two-year old died after he became entrapped beneath
his three-drawer MALM chest, which also tipped over.
After the IKEA "repair" attempt in July of 2015 IKEA was made
additionally aware of numerous other such tip-over events involving the
furniture (more formally identified by model number, below). These additional
such tip-over incidents, included a 2016 incident where a 22-month-old
child in Minnesota died when a MALM six-drawer chest fell over on him.
Moreover, in addition to the three fatalities referenced above, IKEA also
received reports of forty-one (41) tip-over events involving these MALM
chests and dressers which caused seventeen (17) injuries to children between
the ages of 19 months and 10 years old.
The recalled MALM chests were sold at retail during the time period 2002
through June 2016. They retailed for price points ranging from between
$70 and $200.
RECALLED MALM CHESTS AND DRESSERS
MALM 3
- 10/2002 to 6/2016
- 31½” x 18⅞” x 30¾”
MALM 4
- 6/2002 to 6/2016
- 31½” x 18⅞” x 39½”
MALM 5
- 10/2002 to 4/2006
- 157/8” x 19” x 481/4"
MALM 6
- 6/2002 to 6/2016
- 31½” x 18⅞” x 48⅜”
MALM 6 LONG
- 11/2002 to 6/2016
- 63” x 18⅞” x 30¾”
MALM 6
- 4/2006 to 6/2016
- 153/4” x 191/8” x 483/8"
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO
There is no law firm in the country more passionate about removing defective
children's products from the market. If your child has suffered injury
caused by a defective product, please contact the experienced product
liability lawyers at SHOOP | A PROFESSIONAL LAW CORPORATION right away
to discuss your legal rights.
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