10:56 PM
Jul 08
2010

As victim's family mourns, collapse investigation continues

FREMONT

Normally, Nate Kern wouldn’t have been at The Fremont Company on Wednesday.

“He was a fabricator,” said John Kern, his father. “He didn’t normally work in the field, but they needed a welder and they asked him to go. He was happy to.” 

02:13 PM
Jul 07
2010

Roof collapses, one dead, three injured at Fremont Company

FREMONT 

A roof collapse at a Fremont sauerkraut company Wednesday left one man dead and three others injured. 

Nate Kern, 35, of Gibsonburg, died when a portion of the roof over the “cooking room” at The Fremont Company suddenly caved at about 1:40 p.m., police said.