Killing drawer killed three children: IKEA-IKEA agreed to pay $50 million-IT information

IKEA agreed to the drawers of their problems kill 3 United States total compensation of 50 million dollars to the families of the children (about 347 million yuan), and in the name of the 3 children to children's hospitals and nonprofit organizations donated $150,000.

At present, IKEA has been reached with the families of the death of 3 children this agreement, but the agreement still needs to wait until the Court agreed. 3 families of the children's lawyer said that IKEA was agreed after two days of mediation in this programme. The programme once the Tribunal adopted, or it will become the largest amount of compensation of such an event.

3 will share $50 million compensation to the families of the dead children. In memory of 3 children, IKEA will donate a total of $150,000 to Philadelphia, Washington and Minnesota's 3 children's Hospital. In addition to the agreements already reached, IKEA also plans to a focus on child safety and the prevention of such furniture overturning events non-profit organization donated $100,000.

In pictures: IKEA problem drawer killed three United States children. Surging news

As early as 2014, United States two MALM (MALM) killed by a series of drawers dumped children's events. Earlier this year, for the drawers at IKEA launched including free fixed on the wall after the repair service, and a similar incident led to a 22-month-old boy was killed.

In addition to these 3 incidents of child death in the near future, there are another four similar events, the earliest dating back to 1989. The IKEA Cabinets is already dumping lethal time report the United States consumer product safety Commission (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission).

At first, in the United States in Philadelphia filed three charges of IKEA in cases of omission, allegations of plaintiff's family knew IKEA MALM series products are unsafe. But IKEA argued, these families are at fault because they said did not follow IKEA instructions, securing the cabinets to the wall.

On June 29 this year, IKEA finally declared, because there may be the risk of tipping over, the United States recalled 8 million MALM (MALM) cabinets and 21 million other models of wardrobes and dressers, in Canada back to 6.6 million. But IKEA said the recall does not involve China, because these drawer cabinets, China cabinets meet the stability criteria, in line with China's regulatory requirements, and the company is not aware of the Chinese children have died.

However, with the State General Administration of quality supervision, the China consumers ' Association, the Shanghai Bureau of quality and technical supervision and other Chinese Government departments at all levels after more than a week of communication, IKEA (China) Investments Limited announced that from July 12, 2016, recalled in the Chinese market during 1999 to 2016 sales MALM series drawer cabinets, drawer Cabinet recall scope and method in the United States, and Canada the same.

夺命抽屉柜压死三儿童：宜家同意赔偿5000万美元 - 宜家 - IT资讯

宜家同意向被其问题抽屉柜压死的3名美国儿童的家属总计赔偿5000万美元（约合人民币3.47亿元），并以这3名幼儿的名义向儿童医院及非营利组织捐款15万美元。

目前，宜家已经与3名去世儿童的家属达成这项协议，但该协议仍需等待法庭同意。3名儿童家属的代理律师表示，宜家是在经过两天的调解后同意这一方案的。该方案一经法庭通过，或将成为该类事件赔偿数额最大的一起。

3名去世儿童的家属将分摊5000万美元赔偿金。为了纪念3名儿童，宜家还将捐赠总额15万美元给费城、华盛顿州和明尼苏达州的3家儿童医院。除了已经达成的协议外，宜家还计划向一家专注于儿童安全和预防此类家具倾覆事件的非营利组织捐款10万美元。

图说：被宜家问题抽屉柜压死的三名美国儿童。澎湃新闻

早在2014年，美国就发生过两起马尔姆（MALM）系列抽屉柜倾倒压死幼儿的事件。今年早些时候，在宜家针对这款抽屉柜推出包括免费固定上墙服务的维修措施后，又有一起类似事件导致一名22月大的男童身亡。

除了这3起近期的幼童夺命事件，之前还有过另外四起类似事件，最早一起可以追溯到1989年。这些因宜家橱柜倾倒致死时间目前都已经上报美国消费者产品安全委员会（U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission）。

刚开始，在美国费城提起诉讼的三起指控宜家不作为的案件中，原告家庭指控宜家早就知道马尔姆系列产品存在安全隐患。但宜家辩护称，这些家人才是过错方，因为他们没有按照宜家说明书上所说的，将橱柜固定在墙壁上。

今年6月29日，宜家最终宣布，由于存在可能翻倒的风险，在美国召回800万个马尔姆（MALM）系列橱柜及2100万个其他型号衣柜和梳妆台，在加拿大召回660万个。但当时宜家表示，此次召回不涉及中国，因为这些抽屉柜符合中国柜类稳定性标准，符合中国的监管要求，而且该公司未听说中国有儿童因此丧命。

不过，经过与国家质检总局、中国消费者协会、上海质量技术监督局等中国各级政府部门一周多的沟通后，宜家（中国）投资有限公司宣布，从2016年7月12日起，在中国市场上召回1999年至2016年期间销售的马尔姆等系列抽屉柜，抽屉柜召回范围与方式与其在美国、加拿大相同。