Professional Sewer Cleaner. Its No April Fools Joke.

How badly do you want to change careers?

Try cleaning out sewers in calcutta, India.

From Telegraph.co.uk

Is this the worst job in the world?

A manhole worker Ramesh Sahu enters a sanitary manhole in Eastern Indian city of Calcutta

Ramesh Sahu works in the sanitation department of Calcutta, cleaning out the city’s sewers

Picture: EP

A manhole worker Ramesh Sahu enters a sanitary manhole in Eastern Indian city of Calcutta

Despite a rise in the number of deaths of manhole workers every year, workers regularly go into the manholes without any protective gear

Picture: EPA

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7 Responses to Professional Sewer Cleaner. Its No April Fools Joke.

  1. KH Equipment says:

    I was almost sick to my stomach, thinking about the type of things that this guy has plastered all over his body! Not to mention how dangerous and physically taxing this type of work is.

  2. Really says:

    He doesn’t have to go far for a bathroom break.

  3. Jessica says:

    Uh the first thing I thought was exactly how many diseases do you think this guy has contracted???? I don’t even want to think about it. There are plenty of disgusting jobs out there in the world, or Mike Rowe would be out of a job. But this is just a complete health hazzard. Yeah, those people are dying…. from disgusting disease you can get from human urine and feces. That’s just gross. It is sad how some countries are still living centuries behind ohters. WTF?

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  5. Ran says:

    The average life span of a manual scavenger in INDIA is 45yrs, it is an act of genocide on particular community.

  6. Ran says:

    hey guys am working on this topic for my dissertation,designing protective clothing for manual scavengers.Plz mail me if u have anything related to safety gears for manhole cleaners.

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