No compensation benefits are payable for occupational loss of hearing caused by excessive noise if the employee fails to regularly use the employerprovided protection device or devices which are capable of preventing loss of hearing from the particular excessive noise where the employee works.

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Source: SL 1986, ch 427, § 8.