34A-2-502. Intensity tests. (1) The commission may conduct tests to determine the intensity of noise at places of employment. (2) An administrative law judge may consider tests conducted by the commission, and any other tests taken by authorities in the field of sound engineering, as evidence of harmful industrial noise. Renumbered and Amended by Chapter […]
34A-2-503. Loss of hearing — Occupational hearing loss due to noise to be compensated. (1) Permanent hearing loss caused by exposure to harmful industrial noise or by direct head injury shall be compensated according to the terms and conditions of this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act. (2) A claim for compensation for […]
Effective 5/9/2017 34A-2-504. Hearing loss — Extent of employer’s liability. (1) An employer is liable only for the hearing loss of an employee that arises out of and in the course of the employee’s employment for that employer. (2) If previous occupational hearing loss or nonoccupational hearing loss is established by competent evidence, the employer […]
34A-2-505. Loss of hearing — Compensation for permanent partial disability. (1) Compensation for permanent partial disability for binaural hearing loss shall be determined by multiplying the percentage of binaural hearing loss by 109 weeks of compensation benefits as provided in this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act. (2) When an employee files one […]
34A-2-506. Loss of hearing — Time for filing claim. An employee’s occupational hearing loss shall be reported to the employer pursuant to Section 34A-2-407 within 180 days of the date the employee: (1) first suffered altered hearing; and (2) knew, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known, that the hearing loss was […]
34A-2-507. Measuring hearing loss. (1) The degree of hearing loss shall be established, no sooner than six weeks after termination of exposure to the harmful industrial noise, by audiometric determination of hearing threshold level performed by medical or paramedical professionals recognized by the commission, as measured from 0 decibels on an audiometer calibrated to ANSI-S3.6-1969, […]
