Engineer B Professional Seal Affixation Competence Violation Instance
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/16#Engineer_B_Professional_Seal_Affixation_Competence_Violation_Instance
Properties
Instance of
ProfessionalSealAffixationCompetenceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProfessionalSealAffixationCompetenceObligation
Case context
Engineer B, impaired by stroke, signed and sealed structural drawings prepared entirely by Engineer Intern C without adequate direction, supervision, or review, resulting in serious structural design errors and a structural failure.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.96
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer B
Obligation statement
Engineer B was obligated to refrain from affixing his signature and professional seal to structural engineering drawings that were not prepared under his direction and control and that he could not competently review due to his stroke-induced impairment.
Temporal scope
Throughout the period following Engineer B's stroke during which he continued to sign and seal structural drawings
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer B Post-Stroke Cognitive Impairment Concealment, Engineer B Unlicensed Intern Responsible Charge Delegation
derivedFromPrinciple
Licensure Integrity Violated By Engineer B Practice Arrangement
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer B violated Section II.2. of the code because he affixed his signature and seal to documents prepared without his direction or control.
Text references
Engineer B violated Section II.2. of the code because he affixed his signature and seal to documents prepared without his direction or control.
Engineer B would sign and seal the drawings with little to no review. Ultimately, this process led to the failure of Engineer A's building.
TTL
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case16:Engineer_B_Professional_Seal_Affixation_Competence_Violation_Instance a proeth:ProfessionalSealAffixationCompetenceObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Professional Seal Affixation Competence Violation Instance" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case16:Engineer_B_Impaired_Practice_Cessation_Violation_Instance ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case16:Engineer_B_Post-Stroke_Cognitive_Impairment_Concealment,
case16:Engineer_B_Unlicensed_Intern_Responsible_Charge_Delegation ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer B, impaired by stroke, signed and sealed structural drawings prepared entirely by Engineer Intern C without adequate direction, supervision, or review, resulting in serious structural design errors and a structural failure." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.96" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case16:Licensure_Integrity_Violated_By_Engineer_B_Practice_Arrangement ;
proeth:discoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer B" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Professional Seal Affixation Competence Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer B was obligated to refrain from affixing his signature and professional seal to structural engineering drawings that were not prepared under his direction and control and that he could not competently review due to his stroke-induced impairment." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer B violated Section II.2. of the code because he affixed his signature and seal to documents prepared without his direction or control." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the period following Engineer B's stroke during which he continued to sign and seal structural drawings" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer B violated Section II.2. of the code because he affixed his signature and seal to documents prepared without his direction or control.",
"Engineer B would sign and seal the drawings with little to no review. Ultimately, this process led to the failure of Engineer A's building." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 16 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T12:12:21.728882"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 16 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
16
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00
First case
16
Generated
2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00
Attributed to
Case 16 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T12:12:21.728882
Generated by
ProEthica Case 16 Extraction