Passive Acquiescence Suppression Instruction Engineer A Wall Defect
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/100#Passive_Acquiescence_Suppression_Instruction_Engineer_A_Wall_Defect
Properties
Instance of
PassiveAcquiescencetoKnownSafetyViolationIndependentEthicalFailureObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PassiveAcquiescencetoKnownSafetyViolationIndependentEthicalFailureObligation
Case context
After verbally reporting the wall defect through the client chain, Engineer A received an instruction through VWX to omit the finding from the final report and agreed to do so without further escalation.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to actively resist the suppression instruction from VWX/public agency and to insist that the wall defect finding be addressed, rather than passively acquiescing by agreeing to omit the finding from the final report.
Temporal scope
Upon receiving the suppression instruction from VWX on behalf of the public agency
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Client Cha in Suppression of Wall Defect Finding
Source Evidence
Source text
The public agency contacts VWX Architects and Engineers which then contacts Engineer A and asks Engineer A not to include this additional information in his final report since it was not part of his scope of work.
Text references
Engineer A states that he will retain the information from his engineering notes but not include it in the final report, as requested.
The public agency contacts VWX Architects and Engineers which then contacts Engineer A and asks Engineer A not to include this additional information in his final report since it was not part of his scope of work.
TTL
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case100:Passive_Acquiescence_Suppression_Instruction_Engineer_A_Wall_Defect a proeth:PassiveAcquiescencetoKnownSafetyViolationIndependentEthicalFailureObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Passive Acquiescence Suppression Instruction Engineer A Wall Defect" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case100:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Client_Loyalty_Balance_Bridge_Wall_Defect ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case100:Client_Chain_Suppression_of_Wall_Defect_Finding ;
proeth:casecontext "After verbally reporting the wall defect through the client chain, Engineer A received an instruction through VWX to omit the finding from the final report and agreed to do so without further escalation." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case100:Passive_Acquiescence_After_Safety_Notification_Independent_Ethical_Failure_Engineer_A ;
proeth:discoveredincase "100" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T08:29:03.102382+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "100" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T08:29:03.102382+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Passive Acquiescence to Known Safety Violation Independent Ethical Failure Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to actively resist the suppression instruction from VWX/public agency and to insist that the wall defect finding be addressed, rather than passively acquiescing by agreeing to omit the finding from the final report." ;
proeth:sourcetext "The public agency contacts VWX Architects and Engineers which then contacts Engineer A and asks Engineer A not to include this additional information in his final report since it was not part of his scope of work." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon receiving the suppression instruction from VWX on behalf of the public agency" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A states that he will retain the information from his engineering notes but not include it in the final report, as requested.",
"The public agency contacts VWX Architects and Engineers which then contacts Engineer A and asks Engineer A not to include this additional information in his final report since it was not part of his scope of work." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 100 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T08:48:56.180771"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 100 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
100
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T08:29:03.102382+00:00
First case
100
Generated
2026-03-01T08:29:03.102382+00:00
Attributed to
Case 100 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T08:48:56.180771
Generated by
ProEthica Case 100 Extraction