page_title: Crime scene cleanup
section_title: Types of cleanups
hierarchical_section_title: Crime scene cleanup / Types of cleanups
caption_attribution_description: English: traumacleanse company vehicle parked at a multi-shop plaza in Florida during the COVID-19 pandemic
context_page_description: Crime scene cleanup is a term applied to forensic cleanup of blood, bodily fluids, and other potentially infectious materials. It is also referred to as biohazard remediation, and forensic cleanup, because crime scenes are only a portion of the situations in which biohazard cleaning is needed. Incidents which may require this type of cleanup include accidents, suicide, homicides, and decomposition after unattended death, as well as mass trauma, industrial accidents, infectious disease contamination, animal biohazard contamination or regulated waste transport, treatment, and disposal.
context_section_description: Crime scene cleanup includes blood spills following an assault, homicide or suicide, tear gas residue, vandalism removal/cleanup. There are many different sub-segments, named primarily after additional collateral, contingency, or preconditions, regarding the presence of non-blood borne organics, toxic irritants (e.g., tear gas) or disease vectors. However, it is the legality of charging a fee for mitigating potentially harmful biohazard situations that differentiates a registered crime or trauma practitioner from any general restoration, carpet cleaning, janitorial or housekeeping service.
  With concerns about Ebola contamination in the United States, crime scene cleanup companies like Cleaning Guys of Texas and Bio Recovery Corporation of New York have been contracted by government to clean more than just crime scenes.
  Suicide Cleanup51% of suicides are caused by a firearm so the crime scene that is left behind can be very messy and require extensive cleaning. With suicide cleanup cases, there is typically biohazardous materials everywhere, including human blood, brain matter, and other bodily fluids. When cleaning biohazardous materials it's important to know the health risks associated with exposure to human blood. 
  Human blood can carry deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. When cleaning up blood it's important to treat every blood spill as if the substance is infected. By using these precautions it will provide an extra layer of safety.
caption: A company car for "traumacleanse" advertising different types of cleanups
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