Vermilion man dies of injuries after being pinned under vehicle

A Vermilion man has died of injuries sustained when he a vehicle he was working on at a Brownhelm Township auto repair shop fell on him. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner said that David Williams, 43, died Wednesday at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. Williams had been flown to MetroHealth for treatment after a vehicle he was working on at L&M Towing and Repair in Brownhelm Township fell from a lift and crushed him, Vermilion Fire Chief William Brown said. Vermilion fire was dispatched to the auto shop just after 10:45 a.m. and arrived to find that Williams' co-workers had freed him from beneath the fallen vehicle and were performing first aid. "His co-workers did an amazing job of getting him free from being pinned," Brown said on Wednesday. "They did everything they could to try and make a good outcome out of it, so my hat is off to those guys. They work with him every day, they know him better than most people, and they did a great job of keeping their composure and doing what was best for him in that moment." The Lorain County Sheriff's Office took a report on the incident and will review it for consideration of an investigation, but Major Jeff Krepina said that it did not appear initially that there would be a criminal investigation. "There is nothing here, really, that gives us cause to believe this was anything other than a tragic accident," Krepina said. Krepina said that Williams' death was reported to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration which would investigate. Tragically, Williams was the father of Paige Williams, 17, one of the two girls who drowned in a car crash just short of a month ago. Williams and her friend Lucy Hopkins, 18, died after a car they were in crashed and went into the water of the Beaver Park Marina in Lorain on the morning of March 6. No funeral or service plans for David Williams were publicly available Wednesday. Contact Owen MacMillan at (440) 329-7123 or omacmillan@chroniclet.com.