Safety Obligation Invoked Engineer Intern A Bridge Defect Five Year History
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/57#Safety_Obligation_Invoked_Engineer_Intern_A_Bridge_Defect_Five_Year_History
Properties
Instance of
Case context
A visibly obvious concrete bridge defect had been missed by a supervised inspector for at least five consecutive years, creating an ongoing public safety risk that was only partially disclosed to the supervising PE.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer Intern A
Obligation statement
Engineer Intern A was obligated to hold paramount the safety of the public by ensuring that the full scope of the bridge defect — including the five-year history of missed inspections — was communicated to Engineer B so that appropriate corrective action could be taken to protect bridge users from the structural risk posed by the unaddressed defect.
Temporal scope
Upon discovery of the five-year history of missed inspections
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Public Welfare Paramount Invoked By Engineer Intern A Bridge Inspection
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer Intern A reviewed the inspector's reports and photographs going back five years and discovered that the same inspector had failed to report the same defect for at least five years.
Text references
Engineer Intern A reported the defect to Engineer B but did not report the fact that the defect had been visibly obvious for at least five years.
Engineer Intern A reviewed the inspector's reports and photographs going back five years and discovered that the same inspector had failed to report the same defect for at least five years.
TTL
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rdfs:label "Safety Obligation Invoked Engineer Intern A Bridge Defect Five Year History" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case57:Engineer_Intern_A_Materiality_Judgment_Restraint_Present_Case_Bridge_Inspection ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case57:Engineer_Intern_A_Materiality_Judgment_Restraint_Present_Case_Bridge_Inspection ;
proeth:casecontext "A visibly obvious concrete bridge defect had been missed by a supervised inspector for at least five consecutive years, creating an ongoing public safety risk that was only partially disclosed to the supervising PE." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
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proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
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proeth:discoveredincase "57" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer Intern A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Safety Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer Intern A was obligated to hold paramount the safety of the public by ensuring that the full scope of the bridge defect — including the five-year history of missed inspections — was communicated to Engineer B so that appropriate corrective action could be taken to protect bridge users from the structural risk posed by the unaddressed defect." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer Intern A reviewed the inspector's reports and photographs going back five years and discovered that the same inspector had failed to report the same defect for at least five years." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon discovery of the five-year history of missed inspections" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer Intern A reported the defect to Engineer B but did not report the fact that the defect had been visibly obvious for at least five years.",
"Engineer Intern A reviewed the inspector's reports and photographs going back five years and discovered that the same inspector had failed to report the same defect for at least five years." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
57
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-25T21:21:22.784141+00:00
First case
57
Generated
2026-02-25T21:21:22.784141+00:00
Attributed to
Case 57 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T21:32:46.440405
Generated by
ProEthica Case 57 Extraction