Engineer B Hazardous Waste Sample Analysis Direction Suppression
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/149#Engineer_B_Hazardous_Waste_Sample_Analysis_Direction_Suppression
Properties
Instance of
HazardousWasteSampleAnalysisDirectionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#HazardousWasteSampleAnalysisDirectionObligation
Case context
Engineer B supervised Technician A's sampling of drum contents on a client's property; upon receiving Technician A's assessment, Engineer B directed only documentation of sample existence, suppressing analysis.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer B
Obligation statement
Engineer B was obligated to direct Technician A to formally analyze the drum samples rather than merely document their existence, given Technician A's professional assessment that the contents were likely hazardous waste requiring regulatory action.
Temporal scope
Upon receiving Technician A's assessment that the drum contents were likely hazardous waste and before any disposal recommendation was made.
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer B Business-Motivated Regulatory Suppression Instruction
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer B tells Technician A only to document the existence of the samples.
Text references
Based on Technician A's past experience, it is his opinion that analysis of the sample would most likely determine that the drum contents would be classified as hazardous waste.
Engineer B tells Technician A only to document the existence of the samples.
TTL
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case149:Engineer_B_Hazardous_Waste_Sample_Analysis_Direction_Suppression a proeth:HazardousWasteSampleAnalysisDirectionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Hazardous Waste Sample Analysis Direction Suppression" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case149:Engineer_B_Intentional_Sample_Analysis_Disregard_Prohibition ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case149:Engineer_B_Business-Motivated_Regulatory_Suppression_Instruction ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case149:Engineer_B_Intentional_Sample_Analysis_Disregard_Prohibition ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer B supervised Technician A's sampling of drum contents on a client's property; upon receiving Technician A's assessment, Engineer B directed only documentation of sample existence, suppressing analysis." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/149#Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Within_Ethical_Limits_—_Engineer_B_Suppression_of_Analysis> ;
proeth:discoveredincase "149" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T12:19:38.832481+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "149" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T12:19:38.832481+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer B" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Hazardous Waste Sample Analysis Direction Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer B was obligated to direct Technician A to formally analyze the drum samples rather than merely document their existence, given Technician A's professional assessment that the contents were likely hazardous waste requiring regulatory action." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer B tells Technician A only to document the existence of the samples." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon receiving Technician A's assessment that the drum contents were likely hazardous waste and before any disposal recommendation was made." ;
proeth:textreferences "Based on Technician A's past experience, it is his opinion that analysis of the sample would most likely determine that the drum contents would be classified as hazardous waste.",
"Engineer B tells Technician A only to document the existence of the samples." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 149 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T12:35:30.888806"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 149 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
149
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T12:19:38.832481+00:00
First case
149
Generated
2026-03-01T12:19:38.832481+00:00
Attributed to
Case 149 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T12:35:30.888806
Generated by
ProEthica Case 149 Extraction