Summary of article: If a wall anchor kit is included with your item, please use it! Our products are designed to be stable even with open doors or drawers, but for added security and to comply with legal requirements, we include these kits and instructions in our assembly manual. While we cannot foresee every scenario, such as unexpected visits from young relatives, these kits have been shown to prevent accidents.
Although not every home is frequented by the pitter-patter of little feet or even the deeper resonation of big and clumsy ones, we highly recommend the use of a wall anchor kit if it is included with your item. An anchor kit is included with all clothing storage units and bookcases, as well as storage items over 42 inches tall. We carefully design our products to ensure that when doors or drawers are left open, they will not tip over; the wall anchor kit is omitted during testing to ensure that our furniture can meet all stability requirements and weight capacities free standing. Even so, accidents are just that: unexpected and unforgiving. It has been proven that these kits can prevent injury and death. We can't predict when a second cousin, neighbor, or grandchild might stop by, and we want to do our part to ensure that they stay safe. By law, we are required to both include the kit and encourage our customers to use it, and we go so far as to include this in the assembly manual. Beyond that, the customer is responsible for compliance. To view a video on how to assemble the wall anchor, click on the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHsWryfaeNE