Engineer B Complete Reporting Failure
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/71#Engineer_B_Complete_Reporting_Failure
Definition
Engineer B omitted from his report the fact that dynamic test equipment failed during the test and that all 19 piles reported as failing were driven to refusal, thereby precluding independent expert interpretation of the pile driving test results.
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Municipality litigation position
Test pile driving findings report
Balancing with
Client Advocacy
Concrete expression
Engineer B omitted from his report the fact that dynamic test equipment failed during the test and that all 19 piles reported as failing were driven to refusal, thereby precluding independent expert interpretation of the pile driving test results.
Confidence
0.95
Interpretation
Complete reporting required Engineer B to include the equipment failure and the refusal data as material facts, even though those facts complicated the conclusion that 19 piles failed the safety factor requirement.
Tension resolution
The Code of Ethics admits no exception to complete reporting on grounds of adversarial context; the obligation to include all relevant and pertinent information overrides any interest in presenting a one-sided finding.
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer B
Source Evidence
Text references
Material facts, however, were not addressed in Engineer B's report. Among them, that dynamic test equipment failed during the test, and that all 19 test piles reported as failing the test were driven to refusal.
the Code of Ethics which requires that engineers 'shall include all relevant and pertinent information in such report, statements or testimony.'
Source text
Material facts, however, were not addressed in Engineer B's report. Among them, that dynamic test equipment failed during the test, and that all 19 test piles reported as failing the test were driven to refusal.
TTL
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case71:Engineer_B_Complete_Reporting_Failure a proeth:CompleteReportingPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Complete Reporting Failure" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case71:Agent_Engineer_B ;
proeth:appliedTo "Municipality litigation position",
"Test pile driving findings report" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Client Advocacy" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer B omitted from his report the fact that dynamic test equipment failed during the test and that all 19 piles reported as failing were driven to refusal, thereby precluding independent expert interpretation of the pile driving test results." ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:interpretation "Complete reporting required Engineer B to include the equipment failure and the refusal data as material facts, even though those facts complicated the conclusion that 19 piles failed the safety factor requirement." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer B Litigation Expert" ;
proeth:principleClass "Complete Reporting Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The Code of Ethics admits no exception to complete reporting on grounds of adversarial context; the obligation to include all relevant and pertinent information overrides any interest in presenting a one-sided finding." ;
proeth:textReferences "Material facts, however, were not addressed in Engineer B's report. Among them, that dynamic test equipment failed during the test, and that all 19 test piles reported as failing the test were driven to refusal.",
"the Code of Ethics which requires that engineers 'shall include all relevant and pertinent information in such report, statements or testimony.'" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 71 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T14:34:00.918915+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 71 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Material facts, however, were not addressed in Engineer B's report. Among them, that dynamic test equipment failed during the test, and that all 19 test piles reported as failing the test were driven to refusal." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer B omitted from his report the fact that dynamic test equipment failed during the test and that all 19 piles reported as failing were driven to refusal, thereby precluding independent expert interpretation of the pile driving test results." ;
skos:definition "Engineer B omitted from his report the fact that dynamic test equipment failed during the test and that all 19 piles reported as failing were driven to refusal, thereby precluding independent expert interpretation of the pile driving test results." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T14:34:00.918915+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 71 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 71 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
71
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-04T14:34:00.918915+00:00
First case
71
Generated
2026-06-04T14:34:00.918915+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 71 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 71 Extraction