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Grime Story: Look At Unsung Sanit Workers

By MARK TOOR
Posted 3/25/13

It’s not easy being a Sanitation Worker. You get out of bed as early as 3:30 a.m. to make it to the garage by 6. Each truck is expected to pick up an average of 10 tons per day, so your muscles ache viciously during your first months on the job. Now and then, you and the garbage have a particularly close and unpleasant encounter; one SanMan is doused with a can full of water, rotting dead pigeons and maggots.

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