"mistake due to" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to an error or misdeed that has a particular cause or reason. For example: "The mistake due to his carelessness was very costly."
The Cater administration called the vote a mistake, due to failure to communicate.
Each day I am worried about making a mistake due to the enormous amount of pressure I am constantly under".
It raised £8m for Cancer Research UK in just six days, despite thousands of pounds being donated to Unicef by mistake due to the leading cancer charity and Unicef using the same text number for donations.
Taman said it was a mistake due to human error and paid a small fine.
Entirely my mistake, due to the fact that the show is often broadcast on stations the primary affiliation of which is NPR.
However, I booked a car for the return, which was a mistake — due to traffic, the road trip took five long hours.
They were all, she said, "benevolent mistakes", due to her youth and inexperience.
The government said it dropped the investigation because Mr. Phu confessed he had "made mistakes due to lack of understanding of politics".
People make mistakes due to various causes (if you've ever been in a road-rage incident, suggestions for these causes can get quite colourful).
One main source of temptations to commit a fallacy is a misleading or misunderstood linguistic form of a purported inference; mistakes due to this kind of temptation are known as verbal fallacies.
"Those around you seem to be able to make countless personal and financial mistakes due to nice middle- to upper-class parents willing to bail them out, but I know that if I messed up just once I'd be screwed".
