Not everyone is a garbage collector. The profession is considered difficult and dangerous. Especially when the collected bins contain products harmful to the health of the bin loaders. Mathieu, a 31-year-old Courcellor, has already paid the price several times.
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It has been twelve years since Mathieu works within the intermunicipal integrated waste management company Tibi, in Couillet, as a trash loader.
He has already been injured several times because of poor sorting by some residents. “This week, it was the week too long,” says Mathieu. Friday August 14, he was seriously injured during the collection, near Fleurus: “I arrived near the truck to put the collected bags. There, a container of liquid burst with the compression of the truck… except that it was White-Spirit, a highly corrosive product! It got me four hours in the hospital. », Indignant the Courcellois.
► Mathieu was burnt on the wrist, on the eyelid and has a big eye irritation: here is his testimony.
► Recently a colleague opened his calf because of a blade in a bag.
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