the.com/incident
the polite corporate word for 'something broke and someone's getting blamed.'
means an unplanned event or occurrence that disrupts normal operations and usually demands an explanation afterward.
from from latin incidere, 'to fall upon' — same root as 'accident,' but incident kept its composure while accident ran screaming.
security worldany breach gets demoted to 'incident' first
aviation termmeans nobody died, unlike 'accident'
bureaucratic tellseverity often inversely proportional to word choice