Current Case Engineer A Public Authority Notification Imminent Structural Danger
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/136#Current_Case_Engineer_A_Public_Authority_Notification_Imminent_Structural_Danger
Properties
Instance of
Attorney-DirectedConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentOccupantSafetyObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Attorney-DirectedConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentOccupantSafetyObligation
Case context
Current case: Engineer A discovers imminent structural danger; attorney instructs confidentiality; Engineer A fails to notify public authorities — violating the Code's public safety exception clause and potentially state board rules of professional conduct.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (current case)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to notify appropriate public authorities of the imminent structural danger discovered during the forensic inspection, notwithstanding the attorney's confidentiality instruction, because state board rules of professional conduct may require such action and the Code's Section II.1.c. exception authorizes disclosure when public health and safety is endangered.
Temporal scope
Immediately upon discovery of the serious structural defects and attorney's confidentiality instruction
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
in cases where the public health and safety is endangered, engineers not only have the right but also the ethical responsibility to reveal such facts to the proper persons.
Text references
Engineer A, having become aware of the imminent danger to the structure, had an obligation to make absolutely certain that the tenants and public authorities were made immediately aware of the dangers that existed.
in cases where the public health and safety is endangered, engineers not only have the right but also the ethical responsibility to reveal such facts to the proper persons.
we also believe that state board rules of professional conduct might require such action by professional engineers.
TTL
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case136:Current_Case_Engineer_A_Public_Authority_Notification_Imminent_Structural_Danger a proeth:Attorney-DirectedConfidentialityNon-OverrideofImminentOccupantSafetyObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Current Case Engineer A Public Authority Notification Imminent Structural Danger" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case136:Engineer_A_Attorney_Confidentiality_Compliance_Imminent_Tenant_Safety_Violation ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case136:Engineer_A_Attorney_Confidentiality_Compliance_Imminent_Tenant_Safety_Violation ;
proeth:casecontext "Current case: Engineer A discovers imminent structural danger; attorney instructs confidentiality; Engineer A fails to notify public authorities — violating the Code's public safety exception clause and potentially state board rules of professional conduct." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
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proeth:discoveredincase "136" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T13:06:01.020008+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "136" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T13:06:01.020008+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (current case)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Attorney-Directed Confidentiality Non-Override of Imminent Occupant Safety Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to notify appropriate public authorities of the imminent structural danger discovered during the forensic inspection, notwithstanding the attorney's confidentiality instruction, because state board rules of professional conduct may require such action and the Code's Section II.1.c. exception authorizes disclosure when public health and safety is endangered." ;
proeth:sourcetext "in cases where the public health and safety is endangered, engineers not only have the right but also the ethical responsibility to reveal such facts to the proper persons." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Immediately upon discovery of the serious structural defects and attorney's confidentiality instruction" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A, having become aware of the imminent danger to the structure, had an obligation to make absolutely certain that the tenants and public authorities were made immediately aware of the dangers that existed.",
"in cases where the public health and safety is endangered, engineers not only have the right but also the ethical responsibility to reveal such facts to the proper persons.",
"we also believe that state board rules of professional conduct might require such action by professional engineers." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 136 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T13:14:37.528424"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 136 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
136
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T13:06:01.020008+00:00
First case
136
Generated
2026-03-01T13:06:01.020008+00:00
Attributed to
Case 136 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T13:14:37.528424
Generated by
ProEthica Case 136 Extraction