[talk.bizarre] Injury via Phone

jeffw@midas.UUCP (Not the Plantronics Enforcement Department) (08/26/87)

In article <1952@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:

[lots of evidence that you can't usually suffer ear injury from sounds
over the phone]

[Continues with story of one case he consulted on...]
>	My first reaction was that there was insufficient sound pressure
>level to cause such injury.  However, I learned that for the past five
>years the woman used a Plantronics miniature headset (the kind with a
>flexible plastic ear tube).  Now with such a headset, there was an almost
>perfect sound conduction between the receiver element and the ear.  So,
>we contacted Plantronics and got some engineering i

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