This was no accident. The redundancy in quality assurance alone makes this suspect. This reeks of union sabotage
Yeah, you’d think that “Brake pad in position, check” should be on more than one inspector’s list. Either getting the collusion of all the inspectors, or taking the darn things off after the inspections, sounds like what is happening. How dare they stab their buddy boy ‘Bama in the back like that?!?