As the title says, this is actually a pretty good mechanic for a new type of resource (for a new planet?)

It don't necessarily need to have that much damage, but a item that spoils into a tiny explosion enough to damage machinery (without destroying it) forcing the player to have enough bots for repairing the damage.

If implemented properly, it could be a really neat feature.

You could have some resource that needs to be carefully controlled through its entire production chain to avoid decaying into an explosion. Every stage of the resource can be a bit different. One stage could have a very short spoilage timer or another could have the product split into different varying levels of decaying which would involve triaging of the products.