Technician A Environmental Field Sampling Technician
R · Role
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/149#Technician_A_Environmental_Field_Sampling_Technician
Definition
Employed by the consulting environmental engineering firm, directed by Engineer B to sample drum contents on client property; based on experience, believes contents are likely hazardous waste; asks supervisor what to do with samples and is told only to document their existence.
Properties
Instance of
EnvironmentalFieldSamplingTechnicianUnderEngineerSupervision
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EnvironmentalFieldSamplingTechnicianUnderEngineerSupervision
Attributes
| license | Non-licensed technician |
| specialty | Environmental field sampling |
| experiential_knowledge | Sufficient to assess likely hazardous classification of drum contents |
Confidence
0.97
Importance
high
Relationships
| type | employed_by |
| target | Consulting Environmental Engineering Firm |
| type | samples_property_of |
| target | Client Hazardous Waste Property Owner |
| type | supervised_by |
| target | Engineer B Business-Relationship-Preserving Hazardous Waste Supervisor |
Role category
employer_relationship
Source Evidence
Source text
Technician A is a field technician employed by an consulting environmental engineering firm
Text references
At the direction of his supervisor Engineer B, Technician A samples the contents of drums
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
Technician A asks his supervisor Engineer B what to do with the samples
Technician A is a field technician employed by an consulting environmental engineering firm
TTL
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case149:Technician_A_Environmental_Field_Sampling_Technician a proeth:EnvironmentalFieldSamplingTechnicianUnderEngineerSupervision,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Technician A Environmental Field Sampling Technician" ;
proeth-core:adheresToPrinciple <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/149#Subordinate_Engineer_Independent_Safety_Escalation_Right_—_Technician_A> ;
proeth-core:hasObligation case149:Technician_A_Supervisor_Documentation-Only_Instruction_Refusal,
case149:Technician_A_Supervisor_Sample-Documentation-Only_Instruction_Refusal ;
proeth:attributes "{'license': 'Non-licensed technician', 'specialty': 'Environmental field sampling', 'experiential_knowledge': 'Sufficient to assess likely hazardous classification of drum contents'}" ;
proeth:caseinvolvement "Employed by the consulting environmental engineering firm, directed by Engineer B to sample drum contents on client property; based on experience, believes contents are likely hazardous waste; asks supervisor what to do with samples and is told only to document their existence." ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Role" ;
proeth:confidence "0.97" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "149" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T12:13:21.320348+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "149" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T12:13:21.320348+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:relationships "{'type': 'employed_by', 'target': 'Consulting Environmental Engineering Firm'}",
"{'type': 'samples_property_of', 'target': 'Client Hazardous Waste Property Owner'}",
"{'type': 'supervised_by', 'target': 'Engineer B Business-Relationship-Preserving Hazardous Waste Supervisor'}" ;
proeth:rolecategory "employer_relationship" ;
proeth:roleclass "Environmental Field Sampling Technician Under Engineer Supervision" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Technician A is a field technician employed by an consulting environmental engineering firm" ;
proeth:textreferences "At the direction of his supervisor Engineer B, Technician A samples the contents of drums",
"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",
"Technician A asks his supervisor Engineer B what to do with the samples",
"Technician A is a field technician employed by an consulting environmental engineering firm" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 149 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T12:35:30.880326"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 149 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
149
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T12:13:21.320348+00:00
First case
149
Generated
2026-03-01T12:13:21.320348+00:00
Attributed to
Case 149 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T12:35:30.880326
Generated by
ProEthica Case 149 Extraction