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An accident in which a specific person or group is often both the agent and the victim of the accident. The consequences to the people concerned may be great, but their spread is limited.

In the book “Normal Accidents: Living with High‐Risk Technologies,” Perrow (1984) introduces the concepts of system accident and normal accident. Normal accident theory is discussed in Chapter 8, so here we just define his concept of system accident: