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Someone absolutely did, and wrote controls for it, down to the calibration of the torque wrench.

Just as they thought of the failure modes of:

  - cold fluoropolymers in rocket boosters
  - graphite moderated water cooled reactors
  - live ammunition on movie sets
  - insurance products assuming uncorrelated risks in a correlated market
  - etc
All of these things were known and controlled risks long before the event that realised them happened.


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