Carolina QuotesIt takes just the right combination of circumstances to produce a catastrophe, just as it takes the right combination of inevitable errors to produce an accident.
Charles Perrow Connected to the Carolinas
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p. 356
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- Normal Accidents, 1984
- year
- 1984
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- p. 356
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