Statistics suggested that the majority ofmineblastingaccidents wereassociatedwithhumanfactors, andthesafetypsychologyofhumanwas the internalorigin of safety behavior.
As Steve Usdin reports in a superb deconstruction of the scandal in BioCentury, the origin of the dispute seems to reflect internal conflicts that often occur in agencies with many employees holding differing scientific and ideological agendas.