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Truck Carrying Takata Inflators Explodes
A truck transporting Takata Corp. airbag inflators and propellant exploded in Texas last week, killing one person and injuring four others, the company reports.
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A truck transporting Takata Corp. airbag inflators and propellant exploded in Texas last week, killing one person and injuring four others, the company reports.
The explosion incinerated a home, according to local media. The truck apparently was moving the explosive devices to a Takata warehouse in Eagle Pass from the company’s inflator manufacturing facility in Monclova, Mexico.
A spokesperson tells Reuters the truck was carrying ammonium nitrate propellant, the material blamed for at least 12 fatalities and more than 100 injuries resulting from misfiring Takata inflators.
Takata previously identified the Monclova factory as one that has produced some of the roughly 100 million inflators now being recalled worldwide by more than a dozen carmakers. The targeted devices can deteriorate after long exposure to high heat and humidity, then explode when electronically triggered in a crash.
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