HOUSTON -- Thousands of bunk beds sold at local furniture stores could put your children in danger, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday.

A Tomball mother asked Amy for help last year when her child's bunk bed collapsed. Now we've obtained a copy of the federal investigation into that bed triggered by our report.

KPRC Local 2 investigative reporter Amy Davis has the information every parent should see.

When Beth Ebel called us last year about her child's broken bed, the store where she bought it gave her a refund.

But she says money wasn't her motive for calling. She wanted to make sure no children were hurt from the same bed that could've crushed her toddlers.

Ebel's 3 year-old, 30-pound daughter was on the top bunk of her 6 year-old's bunk bed when a wooden rail split and the bed came crashing down.

"I ran up there and the top bunk had completely collapsed down onto the bottom bunk," Ebel told Davis back in December.

Her three other children were playing in the same room when it happened. No one was hurt, but Ebel said she thought The Room Store, where she purchased the bed, would want to see the splintered, cracked and broken wood.

Instead, she said Room Store employees told her the warranty had expired six months earlier.

"So nobody's coming to look at the bed," Ebel told Davis in December. "They're not reporting the fact that the bed collapsed to anybody that I'm aware of.  I don't know. I don't know who to contact at this point."

We put Ebel in contact the Consumer Product Safety Commission. In the weeks after our story, a local investigator compiled an in-depth report.

The CPSC went so far as to pack up pieces of the broken bed up and ship them to its lab for further testing.

Back in December, the distributor of the bed in Mississippi sent us this statement:

"I have sold thousands of these particular bunk beds without any safety problems. When you see photos of this bunk it is obvious that this particular bunk was abused."

But this CPSC report reveals, in Texas alone from 2007 to 2008, 57 customers called The Room Store when the same Nasa Industrial bunk bed "cracked," "split" or "snapped."

The Room Store told us that's about 7.5% of the 754 bunks it sold.

The report reads a Room Store manager said 24 of the 57 broke due to a "manufacturer's defect."

But The Room Store tells us broken wood alone doesn't indicate a safety issue. As we reported in December, Ebel's husband assembled the bunk bed himself. The Room Store recommends paying its employees to do that job. The store has fully cooperated with CPSC and said it takes all complaints seriously.

We're told the manufacturer of the bed in Brazil went out of business two years ago, but that thousands of these beds were sold all across the country.

So what happens now? The CPSC is working to find out exactly how many beds were sold and where . The owner of Nasa Industrial, the distributor of the beds, told Local 2 that he he sold the beds to some 500 retailers all over the country. He said, even with the broken beds reported to The Room Store, he is not aware of any injuries caused by the bed.

If you have one of these beds and have had problems, you can still contact the CPSC.  This investigation is still open. The number to call is 1-800-638-CPSC (2772).