Morgue truck worker ‘used bedsheets when body bags ran out and had to remove 50 to 80 bodies’
A MORGUE truck worker had to use bedsheets to carry up to 80 corpses after body bags ran out amidst the coronavirus crisis.
Erik Frampton, 46, was hired as a temporary worker at a refrigerated morgue trailer in New York City when supplies started to run low.
Speaking to WNYC, the employee detailed how the material shortage left bodies ripping through temporary bags.
He said: “The bodies inside the trailer were not well marked.
“Sometimes we were forced to open up the bags to find ankle or wrist bracelets.
“We use hospital bed sheets where bags have failed.
“There are tons of blood and fecal matter, etc., that have leaked out. The floor is sometimes streaked with it.
“They have obviously run out of body bags and space, with the heavy black bags being replaced with very thin white ones.
“Some are barely in the bags because they have ripped so many times.
“Almost all of the remains still have their tubes in them, especially the ventilator connections.
“Most of the index fingers clearly read ‘Covidean’.”
Frampton also wrote in a Gothamist column: “If I could describe the utter chaos of needing to remove 50 to 80 bodies in a jigsaw arrangement in order to maneuver the shelving over them, I would.
“But words escape me.”
The worker explained that he initially took the job without knowing the emotional turmoil it would cause.
In a statement he published on Facebook on Saturday, he explained that he had since been fired from the work.
Frampton said that he lost his job fighting for the safety of his colleagues.
He wrote: “The eyes are many, but the voices are few, down there in the trailers.
“Mine will be poignantly missed, as I will miss my beloved crew, who’s safety I lost my job fighting for.”
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