Swedish furniture seller IKEA reached a settlement on Monday, agreeing to pay $46 million (about 320 million yuan) to the parents of a boy who was crushed to death by a drawer cabinet he made three years ago.

In May 2017, the two-year-old boy was crushed to death by an overturned MALM drawer cabinet while taking a nap at home. His parents took IKEA to court the following year, accusing the company of failing to remind consumers to fasten it to the wall, knowing that the drawer cabinet was dangerous to overturn and had caused a number of injuries or even deaths of children.

The parents of the deceased also claimed that the cabinet had been recalled in 2016, but they had never been notified. They therefore considered that Ikea had failed to effectively notify consumers of the recall of the drawers involved and asked the company to improve its notification procedures. The court finally accepted the appeal grounds of the deceased's parents and ruled that Ikea had to make punitive damages.

This is not the first time Ikea has compensated for the damage caused by its "faulty drawers". In a settlement in 2016, Ikea agreed to pay a total of $50 million (348 million yuan) to the families of three American children who were crushed to death by "problem drawers".

In June 2016, Ikea announced a recall of 35 million MALM lockers and dressers in North America, but this recall does not involve China. It was only after an interview with the General Administration of quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine that Ikea announced a recall of 1.66 million Malm and other series of drawers sold in the Chinese market between 1999 and 2016.