“It needs to be recalled,” a former director of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Pamela Gilbert, told the newspaper. As of Monday, Ikea no longer sells three- or six-drawer Malm dressers online. Tipped over furniture injures a child every 24 minutes, on average, and causes a fatal accident every two weeks, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. [Ikea recalls safety gates for fear of causing injury to kids]By early May, as the Inquirer reported, demands for Ikea to recall the Malm dresser reached a fever pitch. (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission via YouTube)The three children, Theodore McGee, Camden Ellis and Curren Collas, were all close in age — between 22 months and 2 years old.

Source: Washington Post June 28, 2016 08:05 UTC