An Elizabeth man working on a car at a Cranford auto shop Wednesday, succumbed to injuries sustained after a car fell off lift, pinning him.
Cranford Police responded to a report of an injured employee at 606 South Ave. East (Benner’s Auto Body), yesterday at approximately 5:20 p.m.
The mechanic, Gabriel Feliciano Gomez, 32, of Elizabeth, was working on a 2012 Mercedes that was raised to standing height on a vehicle lift. The vehicle became dislodged from the lift and fell to the ground, striking Feliciano-Gomez and pinning him beneath the car.
Co-workers rescued the man from under the vehicle before police arrived. He was treated at the scene by EMTs from the Cranford Fire Department and MONOC paramedics before being transported to University Hospital in critical condition.
On Dec. 28, Gabriel Feliciano Gomez, was pronounced dead at University Hospital in Newark.
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