I was taught that long time exposure to high decimal sounds will kill the hairs in your ear perminantly harming your hearing, but is the high sounds cummulative after each time?

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Like if I use a saw of 100Db for 10 seconds, then go do something, then go use teh saw for another 10 seconds, have I used 20 seconds out of teh 30 minutes to casue permanet damage, or did it renew, or get weaker, or what?

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Yeah, it adds up. I’ve been in construction much of my life and always wore ear protection but the old timers never did, and you can almost guess their age by how deaf they are from a lifetime of cutting, grinding, and hammering.

Not to mention listening to Godsmack for eight hours at a clip.