| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - While hearing loss is an occupational disease, see Cardillo, 225 F.2d 137, it is not one which does not immediately result in ... disability.??? Thus, as a hearing loss injury is complete when exposure ends, the 1984 Amendment provisions applicable to voluntary retirees do not apply and hearing loss is compensated under the schedule even if claimant is retired at the time of manifestation.
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