Told of the accident, he just shrugged and said "We'll have to make another one." $100,000, and not an eyelid was batted!- It was the Cold War, and budgets were infinite.
There was that, but also most managers at such companies realize that such was an accident, and not an act of vandalism. Not like in high school chem lab, where a kid that accidently breaks a beaker gets reamed out over it. A good company knows that its people are more valuable than any specific piece of hardware.
