Breaches in oil vat, so disastrous (10)

I believe the answer is:

violations

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'breaches' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'in oil vat so disastrous' is the wordplay.
'disastrous' is an anagram indicator.
'in'+'oil'+'vat'+'so'='inoilvatso'
'inoilvatso' with letters rearranged gives 'VIOLATIONS'.

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