One point of view could be that human error cause a lot of natural process to go wrong.

"If we're not totally and absolutely certain the error caused the harm, we don't have to tell."

The errors of philosophy have caused problems in public and private life.

An error in any of these units can cause a disease.

An error in technique might cost months of time, or cause genuine suffering.

I fear that some error on my part caused this to occur.

Did an "error" cause a new trial that set aside the death penalty?

"I cannot adequately explain the pain my errors have caused me."

Then I asked myself what tiny error could have caused the time switch to miss one year.

Any error can cause the structure to fail and break apart.