A top executive of air bag manufacturer Takata Corp., testifying before a congressional hearing on Tuesday, continued to defend his company’s use of an explosive chemical that he acknowledged was a factor in spontaneous ruptures that caused at least six deaths and 100 injuries.
Kevin Kennedy, executive vice president of North America at TK Holdings Inc., Takata’s U.S. unit, conceded that a growing number of tests “seem to indicate that ammonium nitrate is certainly a factor in the inflator ruptures.” But he resisted demands from members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to stop using the chemical immediately.
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