Technician A Supervisor Documentation-Only Instruction Refusal
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/149#Technician_A_Supervisor_Documentation-Only_Instruction_Refusal
Properties
Instance of
SupervisorSample-Documentation-OnlyInstructionRefusalObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SupervisorSample-Documentation-OnlyInstructionRefusalObligation
Case context
Technician A, possessing independent knowledge that likely hazardous waste triggers mandatory regulatory reporting, accepted Engineer B's documentation-only instruction without independent escalation.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Obligated party
Technician A
Obligation statement
Technician A was obligated, upon receiving Engineer B's instruction to merely document the sample existence without analysis, to refuse compliance with that instruction and independently escalate the likely hazardous waste finding to appropriate authorities, given Technician A's independent knowledge that the discovery triggered mandatory federal and state reporting obligations.
Temporal scope
Upon receiving Engineer B's instruction to document samples only and not to analyze them.
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer B Business-Motivated Regulatory Suppression Instruction
derivedFromPrinciple
Subordinate Engineer Independent Safety Escalation Right — Technician A
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer B tells Technician A only to document the existence of the samples.
Text references
Engineer B tells Technician A only to document the existence of the samples.
If the material is hazardous waste, Technician A knows that certain steps would legally have to be taken to transport and properly dispose of the drum including notifying the proper federal and state authorities.
Technician A is then told by Engineer B that since the client does other business with the firm, Engineer B will tell the client where the drums are located but do nothing else.
TTL
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case149:Technician_A_Supervisor_Documentation-Only_Instruction_Refusal a proeth:SupervisorSample-Documentation-OnlyInstructionRefusalObligation,
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proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case149:Engineer_B_Business-Motivated_Regulatory_Suppression_Instruction ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case149:Technician_A_Supervisor_Sample-Documentation-Only_Instruction_Refusal ;
proeth:casecontext "Technician A, possessing independent knowledge that likely hazardous waste triggers mandatory regulatory reporting, accepted Engineer B's documentation-only instruction without independent escalation." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
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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 "Technician A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Supervisor Sample-Documentation-Only Instruction Refusal Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Technician A was obligated, upon receiving Engineer B's instruction to merely document the sample existence without analysis, to refuse compliance with that instruction and independently escalate the likely hazardous waste finding to appropriate authorities, given Technician A's independent knowledge that the discovery triggered mandatory federal and state reporting obligations." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer B tells Technician A only to document the existence of the samples." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon receiving Engineer B's instruction to document samples only and not to analyze them." ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer B tells Technician A only to document the existence of the samples.",
"If the material is hazardous waste, Technician A knows that certain steps would legally have to be taken to transport and properly dispose of the drum including notifying the proper federal and state authorities.",
"Technician A is then told by Engineer B that since the client does other business with the firm, Engineer B will tell the client where the drums are located but do nothing else." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 149 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T12:35:30.889785"^^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
2026-03-01T12:35:30.889785
Generated by
ProEthica Case 149 Extraction