This is very often the case in large accidents, which tend to be associated with large organisations (private corporations, governments, occasionally NGOs, or a

This is very often the case in large accidents, which tend to be associated with large organisations (private corporations, governments, occasionally NGOs, or a often a combination of two or more of same). The late Charles Perrow's work is highly illuminating in this regard: Normal Accidents (1984), Complex Organizations: A Critical Essay (1972), The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (2011), The AIDS Disaster: The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation (1990), Organizing America: Wealth, Power and the Origins of American Capitalism (2002), among others. I've drawn similar associations with dam failures, notably at Banqio (China, 1975: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9927596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9927596> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24327114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24327114> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20020553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20020553> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36562100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36562100>. More recently at Derna: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37523055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37523055>. That last also mentions failures or near-failures in the US, virtually all of which have an organisational dysfunction element.