An employee’s occupational hearing loss shall be reported to the employer pursuant to Section 34A-2-407 within 180 days of the date the employee:

(1) first suffered altered hearing; and

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(2) knew, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known, that the hearing loss was caused by employment.