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        85B.4  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise provides:
         1.  "Excessive noise exposure" means exposure to sound capable
      of producing occupational hearing loss.
         2.  "Hearing level" means the measured threshold of hearing
      sensitivity using audiometric instruments properly calibrated to the
      American national standards institute audiometric zero reference
      level.
         3.  "Occupational hearing loss" means that portion of a
      permanent sensorineural loss of hearing in one or both ears that
      exceeds an average hearing level of twenty-five decibels for the
      frequencies five hundred, one thousand, two thousand, and three
      thousand Hertz, arising out of and in the course of employment caused
      by excessive noise exposure.  "Occupational hearing loss" does
      not include loss of hearing attributable to age or any other
      condition or exposure not arising out of and in the course of
      employment.

Section History: Early Form

         [C81, § 85B.4]

Section History: Recent Form

         98 Acts, ch 1160, § 2
         Referred to in § 85.34

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        85B.4  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise provides:
         1.  "Excessive noise exposure" means exposure to sound capable
      of producing occupational hearing loss.
         2.  "Hearing level" means the measured threshold of hearing
      sensitivity using audiometric instruments properly calibrated to the
      American national standards institute audiometric zero reference
      level.
         3.  "Occupational hearing loss" means that portion of a
      permanent sensorineural loss of hearing in one or both ears that
      exceeds an average hearing level of twenty-five decibels for the
      frequencies five hundred, one thousand, two thousand, and three
      thousand Hertz, arising out of and in the course of employment caused
      by excessive noise exposure.  "Occupational hearing loss" does
      not include loss of hearing attributable to age or any other
      condition or exposure not arising out of and in the course of
      employment.

Section History: Early Form

         [C81, § 85B.4]

Section History: Recent Form

         98 Acts, ch 1160, § 2
         Referred to in § 85.34

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        85B.4  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise provides:
         1.  "Excessive noise exposure" means exposure to sound capable
      of producing occupational hearing loss.
         2.  "Hearing level" means the measured threshold of hearing
      sensitivity using audiometric instruments properly calibrated to the
      American national standards institute audiometric zero reference
      level.
         3.  "Occupational hearing loss" means that portion of a
      permanent sensorineural loss of hearing in one or both ears that
      exceeds an average hearing level of twenty-five decibels for the
      frequencies five hundred, one thousand, two thousand, and three
      thousand Hertz, arising out of and in the course of employment caused
      by excessive noise exposure.  "Occupational hearing loss" does
      not include loss of hearing attributable to age or any other
      condition or exposure not arising out of and in the course of
      employment.

Section History: Early Form

         [C81, § 85B.4]

Section History: Recent Form

         98 Acts, ch 1160, § 2
         Referred to in § 85.34