Soundtrace published a new risk and liability white paper examining a 2024 Louisiana Court of Appeal decision that affirmed more than $91,000 in benefits, penalties, and attorney fees for a single retired employee's noise-induced hearing loss claim, filed two years after he left the payroll.
The paper reads the case through a finance lens: occupational hearing loss behaves like an ASC 450 loss contingency, accruing silently for decades while the company's own annual audiograms measure the decline, then crystallizing at once when a claim is filed. It covers OSHA 1910.95 hearing conservation program requirements, audiometric testing as a recognition mechanism, why NIOSH recommends retaining records for employment plus 30 years, and the monitoring, fit testing, and STS follow-through practices that turn audiometric data into a defense.
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