Wichita ? State regulators said they earlier had investigated the Wichita day care home where a 1-year-old child died Tuesday and were trying to inspect the facility again shortly before the girl’s death.

Joe Blubaugh, spokesman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, wouldn’t discuss the reason for the latest visit Friday but said “the issue that they were investigating most likely wouldn’t have resulted in an emergency suspension” of the day care’s license.

The department claims 13-month-old Kailee Hundley died after being partly strapped into an infant car seat that was too small for her and left for two and a half hours in a laundry bathroom.

Agency officials said the day-care provider, Jessica D. Cummings, discovered the girl slumped over and called 911. But the girl had died by the time help arrived, the department said.

Autopsy results have not been released.

Contacted at her home by the Wichita Eagle, Cummings said the death was a “terrible accident” but disagreed with the department’s description of the death, saying the car seat was not too small.

Blubaugh said a state inspector had tried to check the home a few days before Kailee’s death but couldn’t reach Cummings.