Cleanup: A Decomposed Body

Santon was falling behind, so we just arrived on the scene of a biohazard recovery or decomposed. We're going side and we're gonna prepare to remediate the biohazard situation. So when we come inside your home and some of the things that we do and we take pictures. Of the way of the house, you see that when we leave the houses we found the only room we want to work, that room has been affected by your loss. So we walk around the entire the other property, we take photos and we do all of those things necessary to ensure you that nothing will be molested and that is not a part of the affected area. As we walk into the scene we see that the loss occurred here in the master bedroom. On the bed, we want to identify the areas that we need to clean.

In this space, we see that the mattress has been affected and we need to determine how much has been affected. We have blood-soaked pillows and foot of the bed and the head of the bed we have and we need to clean up the blood. We come over here and we have some blood splatter on the back of the wall here and we can see that the box spring down here below has been affected, as well so there's a great potential that underneath here. There's a lot of blood on the box spring now, I don't want to lift the mattress just yet because we still haven't removed the pillows and I don't want to have bio contaminated area adjacent to the bed. Before we have had an opportunity to remove any potential biohazard from falling to the other side, one of the things that we want to do before we start is we want to set an area with a safety zone or an OSHA regulated area for us to decontaminate ourselves. Before we move to other areas of the house if someone needs to use the bathroom and before we leave this area, what we want to do is we want to check for all biohazards that could be contained in the space of the loss. I guess the paramedics when they recovered the body that was on the bed and has been tossed here to the side. So, we want to make sure we capture these items and we place them and mark them for biohazard disposal.

I'm going to get down on the floor and I'm going to check under the bed and determine how much bile has seeped underneath and now, unfortunately, there's property underneath the bed shoes. Workout equipment that has probably been affected by any biohazard that's seeped through the mattress and the box spring. So we want to take care of that as well, but the most important thing other than is making sure we remove all potential hazards, we want to make sure that our client understands that we are here to help and we're not here to make them feel that their property is at risk or there's any threat of additional loss whether it be financial or property. We just want to take care of the area with minimal disruption to the family and get the house back in order. Now there's a horrible smell associated with any death and this apparently went undiscovered. For sometimes the whole house is full of the odor of death, so once we take care of the biohazard area we want to remediate for the older one and do odor remediation, that can consist of a number of things. So we want to take care of that as well. So when the family returns home they're coming into a house that's been cleaned that's pristine and that they can smell the loss of their loved ones. One of those things that are important for us is to make sure that we're taking care of first hand, so we're gonna wrap this video up and we'll shoot another one a little bit later as we start working through the process of remediating the biohazard.