4.46 noise-induced hearing loss. Permanent hearing loss which progressively increases (at most frequencies the loss will eventually approach an asymptote) due to cumulative daily or regular exposures to hazardous noise not intense enough to cause immediate acoustic trauma. See also C11.53.
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