Company refuses to recall potentially dangerous air bag inflators

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The U.S. is demanding that a Tennessee company recall 67 million inflators because they could explode and hurl shrapnel — but the business refuses.

A Tennessee company could be heading for a legal battle with U.S. auto safety regulators after refusing a request that millions of potentially dangerous air bag inflators be recalled.

"Air bag inflators that project metal fragments into vehicle occupants, rather than properly inflating the attached air bag, create an unreasonable risk of death and injury," Stephen Ridella, director of NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation, wrote in a letter to ARC. The automaker says an inflator explosion"may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death."

One of the two deaths was a mother of 10 who was killed in what appeared to be an otherwise minor crash in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in the summer of 2021. Police reports show that a metal inflator fragment hit her neck in a crash involving a 2015 Chevrolet Traverse SUV.

 

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