85A.4 Disablement defined.
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As used in this chapter, “disablement” means the event or condition where an employee becomes actually incapacitated from performing the employee’s work or from earning equal wages in other suitable employment because of an occupational disease as defined in this chapter in the last occupation in which such employee is injuriously exposed to the hazards of such disease.
[C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §85A.4]