While announcing how Ikea plans to recall 29 million chests and dressers that can easily tip over and trap children underneath, a top U.S. consumer safety official recognized a Barrington Hills woman for educating the public on unsafe children’s furniture.
In a statement and press conference last week about the Ikea recall, Elliot Kaye, chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, referred to Lisa Siefert, a Barrington Hills resident whose 2-year-old son, Shane, was killed in March 2011 when a dresser tipped over and fell on him at home.
The accident didn’t involve furniture from Ikea. But she started Shane’s Foundation a year later, working with furniture manufacturers to make products safer, especially for children.
Read more from the Chicago Tribune here. To visit the Shane’s Foundation website, click here.
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