Yannick Sevenou, 52, slides his thick finger over the 1 centimeter scar he has in the middle of his palm. “There, I sliced myself with a guillotine of 180! » Then go up to the wrist: “Two carpal tunnel operations on the right side. I hesitate to have the left operated. » He then grabs his elbows. Epicondylitis, both sides. » It is a musculoskeletal disorder linked to lesions of the tendons of the forearm. “Sometimes it turns red-violet, the pain is terrible. »
There is also, hidden in his stubble, just above his lip, a scar six stitches long. “It was −8°C, I slipped: I broke the breeze block with my mouthhe says. I left three teeth there. » There’s that time he fell off an unsecured ladder again – “I had my sacrum broken in four places. » This double herniated disc that he hopes to have recognized as an occupational disease. And this follow-up in pulmonology, since these “two tablespoons” of blood spat out of a decanter.
So many stigmata of his career as a pipe plumber, today for Setha (where he is also CGT delegate), a subsidiary of Veolia specializing in the cleaning of sewers, reservoirs, water towers. A mission of public health, in short. Who requires working in cramped, nauseous places, high up or underground, in all weathers and at all temperatures, handling tools or dangerous products to clean the pipes, acid, bleach, being in the contact with asbestos, silica dust or faeces.
However, none of these “professional risks” was deemed high enough to allow him to acquire points for hardship on his professional prevention account (C2P). Unless you can claim a “permanent incapacity” to work of at least 10% “grace” to his accidents at work, or the recognition of an occupational disease, these harsh working conditions will therefore not allow him to retire early.
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This will not be the case either with the new reform, which does not provide for him any preferential treatment: even workers with recognized “incapacity” will be extended for two more years – they will leave at 62 rather than at 60 years. “When we work in the sewers, there is no machine going by, we carry everything on our shoulders, we work on the sledgehammer. Sometimes you have to operate the jackhammer above the shoulder to reach pipes. You break your back, your kidneys, your arms, everything! But that is not considered a tedious job! »he asserts.
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