Section 85B.6 – Maximum compensation.
85B.6 Maximum compensation. Compensation is payable for a maximum of one hundred seventy-five weeks for total occupational hearing loss. For partial occupational hearing loss compensation is payable for a period proportionate to the relation which the calculated binaural, both ears, hearing loss bears to one hundred percent, or total loss of hearing. [C81, §85B.6]
Section 85B.7 – Periodic examination.
85B.7 Periodic examination. Compensation is not payable to an employee who willfully fails to submit for reasonable periodic physical and audiometric examinations. Reasonable written notice of the dates and times of examinations required by the employer shall be given the employee. Examinations shall be scheduled during times the employee, examining personnel, and examination facilities are […]
Section 85B.8 – Date of occurrence.
85B.8 Date of occurrence. 1. A claim for occupational hearing loss due to excessive noise exposure may be filed beginning one month after separation from the employment in which the employee was subjected to excessive noise exposure. The date of the injury shall be the date of occurrence of any one of the following events: […]
Section 85B.9 – Measuring hearing loss.
85B.9 Measuring hearing loss. 1. Audiometric instruments, properly calibrated to the American national standards institute specifications, shall be used for measuring hearing levels and in such tests necessary to establish total hearing loss, if any. The hearing tests and examinations shall be conducted in environments which comply with accepted national standards. 2. Audiometric examinations shall […]
Section 85B.9A – Apportionment of occupational hearing loss.
85B.9A Apportionment of occupational hearing loss. Apportionment of the total hearing loss between occupational and nonoccupational loss, for purposes of determining occupational hearing loss, may be made by an audiologist or physician with qualifications set forth in section 85B.9. In determining occupational hearing loss, consideration shall be given to all probable employment and nonemployment sources […]
Section 85B.10 – Employer’s notice of results of test.
85B.10 Employer’s notice of results of test. The employer shall communicate to the employee, in writing, the results of an audiometric examination or physical examination of an employee which reflects an average hearing level in one or both ears in excess of twenty-five decibels for the test frequencies of five hundred, one thousand, two thousand, […]