Commercial Building Suffers Sewage Biohazard Event

5/25/2018 (Permalink)

This commercial building had a sewage backup from the toilets, all over the floor, that as you see in the photo. This is a serious situation, as raw sewage is full of harmful and hazardous waste. Containing excrement, debris, micro-organisms such as coliform, fecal coliform, escherichia coliform and enteroccocus.  

Dangers of coming into contact with raw sewage include E. coli, Hepatitis, Weil's disease, and more.  This is why it is so important to have trained professionals do the cleanup.

Simply inhaling the fumes of sewage backup can be hazardous - as the air sewage can be contaminated and by breathing in, you can can inhale toxins.  Even inhaling infected dust can be very dangerous. 

Walking through infected areas are very dangerous particularly without any PPE and preventative measures.  You can very easily transmit hazardous toxic matter on your feet and shoes, even if you don't see anything. These are microbial hazards - not detectable with the naked eye.  By walking through an affected area into an unaffected area - you have now contaminated that clean area.  Discard whatever shoes and clothes have touched the affected area and l eave the sewage cleanups to us!  Call 516-767-9600