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In the early morning of June 29th, Beijing time, IKEA (IKEA) announced the recall of 35.6 million "Deadly Drawer Cabinets" in North America.
These chests of drawers have killed at least 6 children and injured 36 children. There have been as many as 82 accident reports. The recalled cabinet styles include the well-selling 8 million Malm series chest of drawers, as well as other styles of drawers for children and adults.
Three children who were killed by IKEA cabinets
However, IKEA does not intend to recall these cabinets in China. At this moment, these deadly drawer cabinets are still on sale in China.
In this regard, the reason given by IKEA China is: "The chest of drawers sold in China complies with China's national standards."
What should Chinese consumers who have bought IKEA's drawer drawers do?
I bought a deadly drawer, what should I do now?
Why do IKEA cabinets that meet China's national standards still kill people? Because the national standard only requires: pull the drawer 2/3, the pressure will not cause the cabinet to collapse. ——But it doesn't matter what is actually put in the drawer and the cabinet.
In actual use, if the items placed on the top of the drawer and inside the drawer are too heavy, or if the child climbs the cabinet while playing, the external force will increase and danger will occur.
The IKEA Malm cabinet that caused the accident was 123 cm high, while the supporting surface was only 40 cm X 48.5 cm. Because the center of gravity is too high, when the child climbs up along the open drawer, the center of gravity can easily deviate from the supporting surface and cause toppling. like this:
Therefore, if you buy a drawer, you must do one thing:
Fix the wall!
Fix the wall!
Fix the wall!
In this series of child casualties in North America, there were reasons why the drawer cabinet and the wall were not fixed. According to the specific conditions of their own wall, they can be equipped with the corresponding tool materials and "draw the wall" on their own.
In August 2012, China has officially implemented the mandatory national standard for children's furniture, "General Technical Conditions for Children's Furniture." The standard clearly stipulates that all high table and cabinet products with a height greater than 600 mm should provide connectors for fixing products on buildings.
In other words, as long as it exceeds 60 cm, it must be fixed!
What should I pay attention to besides fixing the cabinet?
In order to ensure safety, in addition to fixing the cabinet, we can also do these:
Read the installation and use instructions of the attached products carefully, and you will always be careful when you are careful;
Place heavy objects under the cabinet, the center of gravity is lowered to increase stability;
Don't put heavy things such as household appliances and items such as TV sets on the upper part of the high cabinet;
Don't put remote control or toys and other things that children would like to hold high, attract children to climb to get;
Purchase stabilizers to prevent furniture or TV sets from falling, such as TV safety ropes like this;
Select qualified youth and children's furniture for children. The corners and edges of children's furniture should be rounded or chamfered;
Choose furniture without bulging shapes, and the handles on the furniture are preferably barrier-free design to prevent children from accidentally bumping.
The really safe cabinet starts with the purchase:
To ensure the safety of the cabinet, in addition to the above precautions, the first step is to buy the top priority!
If you are planning to buy a cabinet or change a cabinet, Yijun summarizes the principles for choosing a safe cabinet for you:
Principle 1: No drawer is better than a drawer
The drawer cabinet is a relatively special design in the cabinet. It is light and flexible, and has a beautiful appearance. The whole cabinet body is composed of one or more layers of drawers juxtaposed. It is opened or closed in a push-pull manner, which takes up little space and has a strong storage capacity. .
However, it is easy to change the center of gravity of the cabinet during the use of the push-pull design of the drawer, which can easily cause overturning when the cabinet is not fixed.
Principle two, short is better than high
The tall chest of drawers certainly has more storage space, but even if the cabinet is full of things, the cabinet will tilt when pulled a little.
Therefore, it is better to choose a cabinet with a lower chassis ~~
Principle three, weight is better than light
The board of the cabinet is very important.
At present, some high-quality wood-based panels are pressed with high-quality glue, which has large weight, high density, and good nail-holding strength.
However, the popular ecological paint-free board, which does not require paint and has a low price, has poor nail-holding power and is easy to loosen.
When you buy, you can do some gravity tests. Try to open the drawer and press hard. The heavy drawer cabinet is more reliable in terms of safety ~
In order to protect the personal safety of yourself and your family, what is the most important thing? Not a prestigious brand, nor an industry standard for authoritative certification, but your own safety awareness and common sense. I hope this article can help everyone get a safer family environment.
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