‘IT WAS RAINING GLASS'
Mum’s warning after her IKEA desk explodes ‘like a gunshot’ in family home
Samantha Bailey said she was horrified when she discovered her three-year-old desk was reduced to a rubble of broken glass
AN IKEA customer in Australia has described how she got the fright of her life at home after claiming her glass desk "spontaneously exploded".
Samantha Bailey, from Melbourne, discovered the desk - believed to be the £110 IKEA model "Glasholm/Finnvard" - was reduced to a rubble of broken glass describing the noise of it bursting like a "gunshot".
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She told : "It was raining glass all the way down the stairs, into the kitchen, the lounge-room, into the furniture, it's everywhere.
"So I ran up the stairs to find the most enormous mess.
"There are a lot of pieces that have split and sharded into a lot of pieces that, when it exploded, it could have done a lot of damage."
She denied a heavy load on the three-year-old desk caused it to collapse claiming her printer was even situated under the desk.
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"There was nothing heavy on it to cause it to do that," she said.
Samantha said although she was thankful her ten-year-old son hadn't been using the desk when it exploded, she is worried about other families with similar desks.
She said: "I'm really afraid somebody else might have this product in their house and they have a young child."
The mum-of-one said she contacted IKEA to complain but the Swedish company told her that without proof of purchase there was nothing they could do.
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They also told her the desk had lasted about as long as could be expected.
She said he company's response is not "satisfactory" saying: "I'm fearful that this spontaneous explosion is going to cause a death."
IKEA issued a statement saying the furniture retail giant took its customers' safety "very seriously".
In a statement, it said: "Products at IKEA are designed and made of the highest quality and are subject to comprehensive safety checks.
"It is not common that our glass products shatter, however glass is a fragile material."
The Sun Online has contacted IKEA Australia for additional comment.
There have been other random acts of exploding IKEA glass tables.
Earlier this year, a mum from Wales claimed her IKEA table exploded in her living room and left shattered glass flying towards her son.
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