One manufacturer had to recall a heart defibrillator because its built-in safety feature would shut it down if it had not been serviced recently and it thought 2000 was 1900.
On Wednesday, Bangladesh announced the shut-down of 18 garment factories for safety reasons, amid growing concerns over the issue of industrial safety across the country.
The carrier claims that these shut down threats could force it to halt signups of Nextel-branded customers, and furthermore, around three million public-safety workers would purportedly lose service if the FCC did indeed shut down the Nextel network.
That's when the Tennessee Valley Authority, a government-owned corporation, resurrected a North Alabama reactor that had been shut down for safety reasons 22 years ago.