Takata profit push may have harmed safety: Senate report

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Mon Jun 22, 2015 6:13pm EDT

Takata profit push may have harmed safety: Senate report

DETROIT | BY BEN KLAYMAN

Air bag maker Takata Corp may have put profits before safety in a way that contributed to one of the biggest and most complex auto recalls ever, Democrats on a U.S. Senate committee said in a report released on Monday.

The report by the minority on the Senate Commerce Committee was released the day before a Washington hearing on Takata's defective inflators.

Those faulty parts have been linked to hundreds of injuries and at least eight deaths globally - all in Honda Motor Co Ltd vehicles - because of air bags that deploy with too much force and spray metal shards at passengers.

"Internal emails obtained by the committee suggest that Takata may have prioritized profit over safety by halting global safety audits for financial reasons," the Democrats said in their report.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/22/us-autos-takata-idUSKBN0P226B20150622

[Omaha Steve]

1. With the millions of freebies they will be making...

It won't be a profitable year.

[randys1]

2. Remember, if teaparty was in control there would be NO such thing as recalls, regulations