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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, and three thousand Hertz, as
      soon as practicable after the examination.  The communication shall
      include the name and qualifications of the person conducting the
      audiometric examination or physical examination, the site of the
      examination, the kind or type of test or examinations given, the
      results of each and the average decibel hearing level, for the four
      frequencies, in each ear, and, if known to the employer, whether the
      hearing loss is sensorineural and, if the hearing loss resulted from
      another cause, the cause.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C81, § 85B.10] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         98 Acts, ch 1160, § 8