WASHINGTON - Federal safety officials opened an investigation into driver-side airbag inflators made by TRW Inc. after reports that an inflator part blew a hole in the cab of a Dodge pickup.
Although the investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is in an early stage, it could lead to the recall of millions of vehicles if a fundamental flaw is found in TRW inflators.
TRW's share of the driver-side airbag inflator market in calendar 1995 was 25 to 30 percent, according to Tier One, an automotive electronics market research company in Mountain View, Calif.
"We are working with NHTSA regarding what they termed an 'unusual incident' involving a 1994 Dodge Ram pickup truck fire and the deployment of the …
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