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 loss of the employee in one or both ears in excess of twenty-five decibels ANSI or ISO 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 address of the person conducting the audiometric examination or physical examination, the kind or type of test or examinations given, the results of each, the average decibel loss, in the four frequencies, in each ear, if any, and, if known to the employer, whether the loss is sensorineural hearing loss and, if the hearing loss resulted from another cause, the name of the cause.
[C81, § 85B.10]
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