A 39-year-old mother of two died in a horrific mishap when a folding Ottoman bed pressed on her neck and suffocated her, according to a recently released coroner’s report.

Helen Davey, owner of a beauty salon in northeast England, was found by her 19-year-old daughter Elizabeth Davey, the BBC reported.

“I went upstairs, my husband’s bedroom door was wide open and I saw her lying on her back under the bed with her head turned,” the daughter said during a trial in the case.

“Her legs were bent as if she was trying to stand up,” she said of her mother, who also had an 11-year-old son.

“I dropped everything I was holding and tried to rip the top of the bed off her head. The bed no longer had a soft-close mechanism and could easily fall over when let go.

“It was so hard for me to pick it up and try to pull her out,” she said. “I managed to raise it enough that I could use my foot for support. I noticed her face was blue and there was a noticeable dent on her neck from the frame.”

Ottoman beds feature mattresses that can be raised using gas-lift hydraulics and are popular because of the storage space under the platform, which allows clothing and bedding to remain out of sight.

But in Davey’s case, it apparently failed and hit the floor unexpectedly, trapping “her neck against the top of the side wall of the bed frame,” coroner Jeremy Chipperfield said last week as he concluded the inquest into the mother’s June 7 death.

According to the BBC, Chipperfield wrote to British Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds warning that the fatal malfunction should be a “cause for concern.”

The coroner wrote that “unless action is taken” to address the problem, “the existence and use of gas piston bed mechanisms, the failure of which poses a threat to life,” could pose a continuing problem.

“In my opinion, there is a risk that deaths could occur in the future if nothing is done,” he wrote in the report. “In these circumstances, it is my legal duty to report to you.”

In 2022 alone, 18 people died from strangulation or suffocation in bed in the United Kingdom, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents told the news channel.

On October 4, an investigation into the incident concluded that Davey’s death was an accident.

Government agencies have until December 2nd to respond to the recommendation.