London CNN —A 39-year-old British woman was killed when a malfunctioning ottoman bed fell on her neck and asphyxiated her, a coroner’s report said. Ottoman beds have a base that can be raised – usually using gas-lift hydraulics – to access a storage space underneath. The mattress platform on Davey’s bed fell unexpectedly, “trapping her neck against the upper surface of the side panel of the bed’s base,” Chipperfield explained. I dropped everything that I was holding and tried to lift the top of the bed off her head. The bed was no longer a soft close and could fall heavily if it was released.

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Persons: Helen Davey, “, Jeremy Chipperfield, ” Chipperfield, ” Davey, Elizabeth, ” Elizabeth, ”, Chipperfield, Jonathan Reynolds, coroners Organizations: London CNN, ” Locations: England