8. Chad is the receiving clerk at a shipyard. While he is inspecting the incoming cargo on a vendor’s pickup truck, the driver puts the transmission into reverse instead of park, and he backs over Chad’s foot. The foot is numb but doesn’t hurt, so Chad doesn’t report the incident, even though his company requires employees to report near-misses. That night Chad’s foot turns dark blue and throbs. He goes to the emergency room and is diagnosed with a severe bruise but no broken bones. Chad is fitted with a boot to restrain motion.

Chad is on pain killers and sleeps until noon the next day. He decides that he couldn’t function in his job, on pain killers, so he waits another day to return to work. When he shows up at work, his supervisor tells Chad to get back on the job and doesn’t record the incident as a lost-time incident. Discuss what business conduct errors occurred in this situation. Were the supervisor’s actions an ethics violation?