Children may be in danger from furniture tip over accidents, according to data released by the Consumer Protection Safety Commission.

One consumer, Janet M. experienced the sudden and tragic death of her 22-month old son, Ted, after a dresser fell on him. Janet was waiting for him to wake up from his post-church nap, checking every 15 minutes or so. When she peeked in for the final time, she saw that he wasn’t in bed and that the dresser, an Ikea Malm dresser, had toppled over. She soon realized that her son was under it.

“He’s under there, he’s under there,” Janet recalled to Consumer Reports. “I lifted the dresser up, and I started digging through the drawers because all of the drawers had fallen out. And there he was at the bottom. His face was purple. His eyes were half open. I screamed for my husband to come. I started CPR on him. My 11-year-old son called 911.”

Paramedics rushed Ted to the hospital, but they couldn’t revive him. As with many furniture tip over accidents, the weight of the dresser had suffocated Ted. No one heard the crash because his body muffled the sound. “Instead of planning his second birthday party that was supposed to be Elmo-themed, we were planning his funeral,” Janet told Consumer Reports.

Janet and her husband assumed their tragic loss was a freak accident, but they soon discovered that furniture tip over accidents affect thousands of families each year.

According to the Consumer Protection Safety Commission, someone in the United States is injured by a tip over accident every 17 minutes. Over 30,000 Americans visit the emergency room every year due to injuries from furniture tip over accidents. At least 11 percent of all furniture tip over accidents involve a dresser or other closing storage unit. A vast majority of victims in furniture tip over accidents are children younger than 6. Many times, children will climb the front of a dresser or try to play inside a drawer.

In June 2016, four months after Ted’s death, Ikea recalled the Malm dresser involved in Ted’s death. The Malm dresser was allegedly linked to the deaths of two toddlers in 2014. That year, Ikea encouraged consumers to use anchor kits to attach their dressers to the wall. However, the dresser remained on the market.

The McGees sued Ikea in August 2016, and the company settled with them and the families of the two other toddlers that December.

There is currently a voluntary industry standard that any dresser taller than 30 inches should stay upright with 50 pounds of weight hanging from an open drawer. However, because the standard is voluntary, manufacturers are not required to test for the standard, or even to meet it. Victims of furniture tip over accidents are calling for regulators to set a mandatory industry safety standard and strongly enforce it to protect from further accidents.

Furniture tip over accidents can also involve TVs or appliances. TVs are estimated to fall with as much as 10,000 pounds of of force when tipped over, and they are responsible for a significant number of injuries and deaths, according to the Consumer Protection Safety Commission. Appliances involved in furniture tip over accidents reportedly lead to 800,000 visits to the emergency room each year.

If you or a loved one were injured from furniture tip over accidents, you may have a legal claim.