Engineer Intern A Materiality Judgment Restraint Present Case Bridge Inspection
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/57#Engineer_Intern_A_Materiality_Judgment_Restraint_Present_Case_Bridge_Inspection
Properties
Instance of
InternMaterialityJudgmentRestraintObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#InternMaterialityJudgmentRestraintObligation
Case context
Engineer Intern A discovered a visibly obvious concrete bridge defect and reported it to Engineer B but omitted the material fact that the same defect had been missed in inspection for at least five years; Board found Engineer Intern A was not qualified to independently evaluate the materiality of that historical information.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer Intern A (present case)
Obligation statement
Engineer Intern A was obligated to report to Engineer B all material facts related to the visibly obvious bridge defect — including the fact that the same defect had been missed in inspection for at least five years — without independently filtering that information based on a personal assessment that it might reduce urgency, because Engineer Intern A was not yet qualified to make that materiality determination.
Temporal scope
At the time of reporting the discovered bridge defect to supervising Engineer B
Relationships
competesWith
Complete Unfiltered Upward Reporting Violated By Engineer Intern A Bridge Inspection, Safety Obligation Invoked Engineer Intern A Bridge Defect Five Year History
defeasibleUnder
Engineer Intern A Materiality Judgment Incompetence State, Engineer Intern A Selective Information Omission in Report to Supervis or, Engineer Intern A Unverified Scope of Structural Risk
derivedFromPrinciple
Intern Epistemic Humility and Materiality Deference Obligation Invoked Present Case
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer Intern A failed to report the material information that the visibly obvious defect had been missed in inspection for at least five years.
Text references
As a practical matter, revealing that the visibly obvious defect had been in existence and unchanged for at least five years might have actually reduced the urgency of any investigation, but Engineer Intern A was not yet qualified to either make that determination or evaluate the materiality of the information.
Engineer Intern A failed to report the material information that the visibly obvious defect had been missed in inspection for at least five years.
Engineer Intern A had a responsibility to report all material facts related to the visibly obvious defect.
TTL
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case57:Engineer_Intern_A_Materiality_Judgment_Restraint_Present_Case_Bridge_Inspection a proeth:InternMaterialityJudgmentRestraintObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer Intern A Materiality Judgment Restraint Present Case Bridge Inspection" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case57:Complete_Unfiltered_Upward_Reporting_Violated_By_Engineer_Intern_A_Bridge_Inspection,
case57:Safety_Obligation_Invoked_Engineer_Intern_A_Bridge_Defect_Five_Year_History ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case57:Engineer_Intern_A_Materiality_Judgment_Incompetence_State,
case57:Engineer_Intern_A_Selective_Information_Omission_in_Report_to_Supervisor,
case57:Engineer_Intern_A_Unverified_Scope_of_Structural_Risk ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer Intern A discovered a visibly obvious concrete bridge defect and reported it to Engineer B but omitted the material fact that the same defect had been missed in inspection for at least five years; Board found Engineer Intern A was not qualified to independently evaluate the materiality of that historical information." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case57:Intern_Epistemic_Humility_and_Materiality_Deference_Obligation_Invoked_Present_Case ;
proeth:discoveredincase "57" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T21:25:49.111562+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "57" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T21:25:49.111562+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer Intern A (present case)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Intern Materiality Judgment Restraint Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer Intern A was obligated to report to Engineer B all material facts related to the visibly obvious bridge defect — including the fact that the same defect had been missed in inspection for at least five years — without independently filtering that information based on a personal assessment that it might reduce urgency, because Engineer Intern A was not yet qualified to make that materiality determination." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer Intern A failed to report the material information that the visibly obvious defect had been missed in inspection for at least five years." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of reporting the discovered bridge defect to supervising Engineer B" ;
proeth:textreferences "As a practical matter, revealing that the visibly obvious defect had been in existence and unchanged for at least five years might have actually reduced the urgency of any investigation, but Engineer Intern A was not yet qualified to either make that determination or evaluate the materiality of the information.",
"Engineer Intern A failed to report the material information that the visibly obvious defect had been missed in inspection for at least five years.",
"Engineer Intern A had a responsibility to report all material facts related to the visibly obvious defect." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 57 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T21:32:46.445364"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 57 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
57
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T21:25:49.111562+00:00
First case
57
Generated
2026-02-25T21:25:49.111562+00:00
Attributed to
Case 57 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T21:32:46.445364
Generated by
ProEthica Case 57 Extraction