​On April 28, I along with two other mother's who's children have passed away in a tip-over accident, called on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to secure a formal recall of IKEA furniture responsible for the deaths of three toddlers. Us three mom's are all a part of CPSC’s #AnchorIt! campaign and recognize the value of educating parents and caregivers, but more must be done. We urge the CPSC to take further action. 

In a letter to CPSC Chairman Elliot Kaye, we urged CPSC to take immediate action to better protect children from the tip-over hazard of certain IKEA dressers as well as stopping the sale of dressers that do not meet the current industry standard. Just last week, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported the February death of a 22-month-old boy in Apple Valley, Minnesota, who died when the Malm dresser in his room tipped over on him. This is the third confirmed tip-over death from IKEA Malm dressers. 

We would hope to see action on the repair plan developed with IKEA to properly label it a recall and hopefully get more dressers anchored or removed from homes before we see another death.

Advocates say straps, anchors to can easily prevent death, injuries every year to young children
March 13, 2013|By Kay Manning, Special to the Tribune

Two years after her son Shane was crushed by a falling dresser in the family's Barrington Hills home, Lisa Siefert drives to her advocacy work on the dangers of tip-overs with his car seat still in place. She can't bring herself to go into the bedroom where the 2-year-old died, but gathers the will to talk about what happened because she didn't know furniture should be anchored and wants to warn others to prevent another tragedy. More...

Lisa Siefert (second from left) with fellow members of Safe Kids McHenry County: Kathleen Kash, Aimeé Knop and Mary Reid.