Brain Fertilizer

I'm very NOT proud of this.

But it was a screw-up. For screw-ups to happen, an incredible string of coincidences have to occur. But materials are handled thousands of times. Processes are run thousands of times a day. Every once in a long while, enough people make a minor mistake, and enough people assume it was a deliberate choice beyond their clearance/knowledge (the Someone Else's Problem effect described in the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series) that a blunder occurs.

It's human nature.

Boredom and routine war with responsibility.

Sometimes, the process designed to prevent accidents ends up creating them through its reassuring and attention-numbing drudgery.

I'm just glad no one was hurt or killed.