Dressers Recalled After Two Toddlers Die
By: Jennifer Crumley
Updated: February 21, 2013
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Bexco Enterprises Inc., doing business as Million Dollar Baby of Montebello, Calif. is announcing a voluntary recall of 18,000 children's four-drawer dressers.
When a young child climbs up on open dresser drawers, the dresser becomes unstable and poses the risk of tip over and entrapment.
CPSC and Million Dollar Baby have received two reports of deaths associated with these dressers. An 11-month-old boy from Tulsa, Okla. and a 20-month-old girl from Camarillo, Calif. were reported to have suffocated when their dressers tipped over, entrapping them between the dresser and the floor. The cause of the deaths has not been determined.
This voluntary recall involves Emily style four-drawer dressers with model numbers M4712, M4722, M4732 and M4742 and similar Ryan dressers with the model M4733.
The dressers were sold in five finishes: Cherry, Ebony, Espresso, Honey Oak and White. The model number, Million Dollar Baby and MADE IN TAIWAN are printed on a label located on the back of the dresser.
The recalled dresser measures 33-inches high by 20-inches deep by 40-inches wide and is a part of the Da Vinci childrens bedroom furniture collection. The dressers are made from pine and wood composite.
The recalled dressers were sold at JC Penney and independent juvenile specialty stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com, BabiesRUs.com, BabyUniverse.com and other online retailers from January 2006 through June 2010 for between $230 and $300.
The Million Dollar Baby dressers met applicable voluntary standards when first produced, but a May 2009 voluntary industry standard, and subsequent revisions published in October 2009 and November 2009, requires that tip-over restraints be sold with the dressers.
The restraints attach to a wall, framing or other support to help prevent dresser tip-over entrapment hazards to young children. Million Dollar Baby is offering free retrofit kits with tip-over restraints to consumers who have older dressers. Included in the kit is an adhesive warning label that consumers are to attach to the dresser, which describes how to prevent tip-over injuries.
The dressers were manufactured in Taiwan and the USA.
Consumers should immediately stop using and keep the dresser out of a childs reach.
Consumers can contact Million Dollar Baby to receive a free retrofit kit that contains a wall anchor strap, which attaches to the dresser and wall to help prevent the dresser from tipping. The kits can be ordered by visiting the firms website at www.themdbfamily.com/safety2and click on Safety HQ or call toll-free at (888) 673-6652 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. PT Monday through Friday.
Source: http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/2013/Million-Dollar-Baby-Dressers
