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[-] Railing5132@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Out of the tens of thousands of installed systems, there are bound to be failures of the mechanical safeties (or human-performed installation/maintenence) that can lead to a Swiss cheese path to failure. I wouldn't necessarily dismiss the whole category as a bad example because of that however.

Is it perfectly fail-safe? Well, in those cases, it wasn't. But what were the contributing factors?

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