BEAVER, BEAVER COUNTY — An attorney representing the estate of two toddlers killed last summer by a falling dresser has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the manufacturer.

The lawsuit also names the Babies R’ Us store in Cranberry Township that sold the dresser and the employee who assisted the parents that day.

David and Jennifer Beatty lost their two children, 3-year-old Ryeley and 2-year-old Brooklyn, on July 4 when the dresser fell on them.

Nick Urick, an attorney representing the two girls’ estate, said this morning that he filed the suit to bring awareness to the situation in the hopes that something like this doesn’t happen to other families.

Urick, who filed the suit in Beaver County court, asserted that the dresser was improperly designed by the manufacturer and that the manufacturer should be held accountable for the accident.

“The rationale behind the suit is that the furniture that killed them was designed improperly,” he said.

Urick said the manufacturer is Baby Cache in New Jersey.

The store and its employee are named in the suit, Urick said, because the dresser was an assembled model that was sold on clearance without any safety features, warning labels or instructions.

“They sold it in a defective condition,” he said.

However, Beaver County prosecutors eventually charged David Beatty with two counts of involuntary manslaughter stemming from the toddlers’ deaths, saying the accident was preventable and that Beatty didn’t respond to the girls soon enough.

A judge last month dismissed most of the charges against Beatty, although he and his wife still will stand trial in March on child endangerment charges.