Was this a bottleneck to the end product? If at some point in the process there's a different bottleneck, I'd expect it to be reasonably construed as dangerous.

Was this a bottleneck to the end product? If at some point in the process there's a different bottleneck, I'd expect it to be reasonably construed as dangerous. That being said it sounds like an ownership problem. Red tape made from past fires (not the pink slip kind ) can easily become the real problem in a complex operation like this.