Mother dies after being suffocated by faulty beanbag chair: coroner

SEAHAM, England (WKRC) – A woman was killed in an incident involving her ottoman bed.

According to USA today, quoting Jeremy Chipperfield, senior coroner for Durham and Darlington, 39-year-old Helen Davey was killed at her home in Seaham, England, in June, after a faulty piston in her gas lift armchair caused the bed to fall.

“The deceased was leaning over the storage area of ​​an Ottoman-style ‘gas lift bed’ when the mattress platform unexpectedly lowered, pinning her neck against the top surface of the bed’s base side panel. Unable to free herself, She died of positional asphyxiation, one of the two gas lift pistons was defective,” wrote Chipperfield, per. USA today.

Davey’s death was ruled accidental by the coroner’s office, the outlet reported.

Citing a report from The Northern EchoMum-of-two Davey was discovered by her daughter Elizabeth after she returned from a hairdressing appointment.

“I went up the stairs, my mother’s bedroom door was open and I saw her lying on her back with her head under the bed. I dropped everything I was holding and tried to lift the top of the bed off her head,” Davey said. daughter said in a statement, by The Echo.

Rescue teams carried out life-saving measures, but the 39-year-old man died at the scene, the publication reported.

The coroner warned that bean bags using gas lifts could be dangerous in a report to the Secretary of State for Business and Commerce and the Office of Product Safety and Standards, for USA today.

“In my opinion, steps should be taken to prevent future deaths and I believe you have the power to take such steps,” Chipperfield wrote, according to the outlet.