Furniture retailer IKEA has urged customers who have bought chest of drawers in its shops to ensure they are securely fixed to the wall.
It follows a settlement in the US, where the company has agreed to pay $46m (€41.2m) to the parents of a child who was killed when a set of drawers fell on him.
The two-year old, Jozef Dudeck, suffocated when the company's MALM drawers toppled over onto him at the family's California home.
The item had been recalled a year earlier in the US over safety concerns after three other children were killed.
The MALM product was not recalled here at the time.
A spokesperson for IKEA UK and Ireland said its products meet all applicable requirements in the countries where they are sold.
She said its chests of drawers are safe when anchored to the wall as outlined in the assembly instructions, using the tip over restraint provided with the product.
The spokesperson said she had no information of any tip-over incidents with a properly anchored chest of drawers in Ireland.
She also said the litigation case in the US involved a locally recalled version of MALM chests of drawers, which is not available in IKEA stores in the UK or Ireland today.
The spokesperson said customers should check to ensure their chests of drawers are securely anchored to the wall, and said it offers a free replacement restraint kit if one is needed.
