U.S. regulator orders Takata to provide documents related to faulty air bags

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent a special order to the supplier's TK Holdings Inc, ordering delivery of the documents by December 1. Takata spokesman Alby Berman on Thursday said the company "is cooperating fully with NHTSA and is working to meet their requests." For the past 18 months, Takata has been besieged by chronic, widespread problems with defective inflators in its air bags that tend to explode with excessive force and spray metal shards into vehicle occupants. In a special order signed by Chief Counsel Kevin Vincent, NHTSA ordered Takata to produce documents relating to communication between Takata and its rivals as well as its customers related to ruptured air bags.

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