Engineer B Investigative Diligence Failure
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/71#Engineer_B_Investigative_Diligence_Failure
Definition
Engineer B failed to communicate with Engineer A's on-site representative and failed to inquire from the contractor, workers, or others on the job, constituting a failure of fact-gathering diligence in the pile driving investigation.
Properties
Instance of
InvestigativeCompletenessPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#InvestigativeCompletenessPrinciple
Applied to
Pile driving records and field personnel
Test pile driving program
Balancing with
Scope Limitation Disclosure Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer B failed to communicate with Engineer A's on-site representative and failed to inquire from the contractor, workers, or others on the job, constituting a failure of fact-gathering diligence in the pile driving investigation.
Confidence
0.92
Interpretation
Investigative completeness required Engineer B to pursue available sources of evidence including on-site personnel, the contractor, and workers before reaching and reporting conclusions about whether the piles met the safety factor requirement.
Tension resolution
The case text holds that Engineer B's failure to inquire from available on-site sources is a failure of fact-gathering diligence, independent of any contractual scope limitation.
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
Engineer B's failure to inquire from the contractor, workers or others on the job is a failure of fact gathering diligence.
It is clear that Engineer B may be criticized for his failure to communicate with Engineer A's on-site representative.
Source text
Engineer B's failure to inquire from the contractor, workers or others on the job is a failure of fact gathering diligence.
TTL
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case71:Engineer_B_Investigative_Diligence_Failure a proeth:InvestigativeCompletenessPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Investigative Diligence Failure" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case71:Agent_Engineer_B ;
proeth:appliedTo "Pile driving records and field personnel",
"Test pile driving program" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Scope Limitation Disclosure Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer B failed to communicate with Engineer A's on-site representative and failed to inquire from the contractor, workers, or others on the job, constituting a failure of fact-gathering diligence in the pile driving investigation." ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:interpretation "Investigative completeness required Engineer B to pursue available sources of evidence including on-site personnel, the contractor, and workers before reaching and reporting conclusions about whether the piles met the safety factor requirement." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer B Litigation Expert" ;
proeth:principleClass "Investigative Completeness Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The case text holds that Engineer B's failure to inquire from available on-site sources is a failure of fact-gathering diligence, independent of any contractual scope limitation." ;
proeth:textReferences "Engineer B's failure to inquire from the contractor, workers or others on the job is a failure of fact gathering diligence.",
"It is clear that Engineer B may be criticized for his failure to communicate with Engineer A's on-site representative." ;
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 "Engineer B's failure to inquire from the contractor, workers or others on the job is a failure of fact gathering diligence." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer B failed to communicate with Engineer A's on-site representative and failed to inquire from the contractor, workers, or others on the job, constituting a failure of fact-gathering diligence in the pile driving investigation." ;
skos:definition "Engineer B failed to communicate with Engineer A's on-site representative and failed to inquire from the contractor, workers, or others on the job, constituting a failure of fact-gathering diligence in the pile driving investigation." ;
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