A blood spill is never just a stain. Our OSHA-certified crew removes the hidden danger, decontaminates to hospital standard, verifies it with testing, and bills your insurance directly, for homes and businesses across Bexar County.
Blood from an accident, fall, medical episode, or injury is a biohazard, even when it looks like an ordinary stain. Here is what makes it genuinely unsafe to handle alone.
Blood can carry HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and MRSA. These pathogens survive on surfaces for days, so a spill that looks cleaned can still be infectious. We treat every blood spill as a biohazard.
HIV, Hepatitis B and C, and MRSA can remain infectious on dry surfaces for hours to days, Hepatitis B for as long as a week. Wiping the visible blood does not neutralize what is left behind.
Blood soaks into carpet padding, grout, subfloor, drywall, and the gaps between floorboards. The contamination spreads well beyond the visible spill, where surface cleaning never reaches it.
Household bleach degrades fast and does not reliably kill bloodborne pathogens. DIY cleanup risks exposure and leaves live contamination behind. Employers also have an OSHA 1910.1030 duty not to ask untrained staff to clean blood.
You should know exactly what we will do inside your home or business. Here is every stage, start to finish.
Certified technicians arrive in full PPE, map how far the blood has spread, including into porous materials, and contain the area so contamination does not travel further.
Porous materials that have absorbed blood, carpet, padding, drywall, and flooring where needed, are cut out, double-bagged, and disposed of as regulated medical waste per EPA and DOT rules.
Every affected surface is treated with EPA-registered disinfectants proven effective against bloodborne pathogens, MRSA, and other biological agents, applied at the correct dwell time.
We swab treated surfaces and measure ATP to detect biological residue invisible to the eye. We re-treat and re-test until readings confirm the area is truly decontaminated.
The area is certified safe to reoccupy. We provide full documentation for your records, insurance claim, or workplace compliance file.
Most contained blood spills are completed in a few hours. Larger spills or cases with significant porous spread may take a full day or more. We will give you a realistic timeframe during your free assessment. See also our trauma cleanup and crime scene cleanup services.
From a fall or medical episode at home to an injury or incident at a workplace, we handle both, and businesses have a legal duty to do it right.
Blood spills happen in every kind of setting. We respond to homes, rentals, offices, warehouses, retail stores, restaurants, and industrial sites across San Antonio. Common situations we clean up safely:
Falls, slips, and household accidents
Medical episodes and haemorrhages
Injuries, lacerations, and trauma incidents
Workplace and commercial incidents
OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard (29 CFR 1910.1030) means employers cannot make untrained staff clean up blood. Bringing in a certified crew protects your people and your business from liability.
Cost should never stop you from getting a blood spill handled safely. Most of the time, you pay little or nothing out of pocket. Here is the honest picture.
If the blood is the result of a crime, the Texas Attorney General's office reimburses up to $2,250 for qualifying cleanup costs, for crimes that occurred after July 14, 2016. This is real money back in your pocket. We can help you understand whether your situation qualifies and assist with the paperwork.
Most standard homeowners, renters, and commercial property policies in Texas cover blood and biohazard remediation under dwelling, contents, or other-structures coverage. We document the scene and bill your insurer directly, so you should not have to chase a claim on a difficult day.
Call to check your coverage, (210) 864-1250Certifications are not a box-ticking exercise. Here is what each one actually means for your safety, and for our full range of biohazard and trauma cleanup services across San Antonio.
The Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. Every technician is trained to handle blood without spreading contamination, carries the right PPE, follows an exposure control plan, and is vaccinated against hepatitis B. This is the standard that separates a professional crew from an unqualified cleaner.
We use only disinfectants on the EPA's approved list, proven effective against bloodborne pathogens, MRSA, and other serious biological agents. The area is genuinely safe after we leave, not just visually clean.
ABRA members follow a code of ethics and independently verified training standards. It is the industry's way of ensuring you get a crew who knows what they are doing and who will treat you with dignity.
Tell us a little about your situation and a member of our San Antonio team will call you back, usually within the hour.
24/7 response across the entire metro, wherever you need us.
It is strongly discouraged. Household bleach degrades quickly and does not reliably kill bloodborne pathogens such as HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and MRSA, which can survive on surfaces for days. Blood also seeps into porous materials, grout, subfloor, carpet padding, and the gaps between floorboards, where wiping the visible surface leaves contamination behind. Without EPA-registered disinfectants, proper PPE, and ATP verification testing, you risk exposing yourself and others to serious disease. We handle it safely and confirm the area is truly decontaminated, not just visually clean.
Blood can carry bloodborne pathogens that remain infectious on dry surfaces for hours or days. Hepatitis B virus, for example, can survive on surfaces for at least seven days. Even a small spill can seep beneath flooring and into grout, drywall, and subfloor, spreading the contamination well beyond what is visible. A surface that looks clean after wiping can still harbor live pathogens, which is why professional remediation with verification testing matters.
In most cases, yes. Under OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens Standard (29 CFR 1910.1030), employers cannot require untrained staff to clean up blood or other potentially infectious materials. Cleanup must be performed by workers with documented training, an exposure control plan, proper PPE, and hepatitis B vaccination. Asking an untrained cleaner or employee to mop up blood can expose your business to liability and citations. Our crew is fully OSHA-compliant, so your business stays protected.
In most cases, yes. Standard homeowners, renters, and commercial property policies in Texas typically cover professional blood and biohazard remediation under dwelling, contents, or other-structures coverage. This applies to accidents, medical episodes, injuries, and workplace incidents. We bill your insurer directly and handle the documentation, so you have one less thing to manage.
We are available 24/7 across San Antonio and Bexar County and aim to arrive within hours of your call. Blood is time-sensitive: the longer it sits, the further pathogens can spread and the deeper it soaks into porous materials. Call us as soon as the area is safe and not an active medical emergency, and we will mobilise a certified crew quickly.
We use ATP (adenosine triphosphate) testing, the same verification method used in hospitals. A swab measures biological residue that is invisible to the naked eye, giving an objective pass or fail reading on each treated surface. We continue disinfecting and re-testing until readings confirm the area is decontaminated, then provide documentation for your records or insurance claim.
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