tip-over deaths

Elliot Kaye (left), then chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, watches a demonstration of how an Ikea dresser can tip and fall on a child during a news conference at the National Press Club in 2016.

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Furniture tip-overs are declining but still injure thousands in the U.S. each year

3:14pm February 03, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

The Consumer Product Safety Commission also found that there have been 581 tip-over fatalities in the U.S. since 2000. Four in five of the deaths were children.

A child-size dummy is crushed by a dresser during a Consumer Product Safety Commission news conference in Washington, D.C., in 2016. That year Ikea began a recall of millions of dressers after six children were killed in tip-over incidents. But a new stud

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Economy

'Consumer Reports' Finds Dangerous Dressers In All Sizes And Shapes

3:11pm March 22, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

Furniture tip-overs kill multiple children every year. A nonprofit group tested a range of dressers and found there was no way for consumers to tell by looking whether a dresser would be stable.