A high school football player from Ohio saved his neighbor’s life by lifting a car off the man’s chest.

Sixteen-year-old Zac Clark, who plays for Clear Fork High School, was doing yard work with his mother, Lora Clark, last Saturday when they heard their neighbors’ cries for help. When Zac rushed over, he saw a man crushed under a Volkswagen and his wife in a panic.

“I guess the jack broke or slipped and the car fell on top of him from the waist up,” Zac told Fox 8 News. “Only thing I could see was his legs and he was struggling.”

Zac found the strength to lift the 3,000-pound car off the man so that his wife could pull him out. The 39-year-old man, who told the TV station he usually uses braces while working on the car, was promptly rushed to the hospital. Doctors claimed he would have died had Zac not been there to help.

The man is recovering at home with his family.

“He had a couple of cracked ribs and his face was messed up pretty bad, but the doctors told him if I wasn’t there, then he’d be dead,” Zac said. “I just thank God for putting me in the position and giving me the strength to do that.”

Zac’s football coach Dave Carroll wasn’t shocked by the teen’s heroics, noting that he is always helping others and wants to become a firefighter after graduation.

“Why it doesn’t surprise me that he did this, he has just a huge heart,” Carroll said. “Here’s a young man who’s been through tragedy himself with his father passing away last summer and he didn’t hesitate at all and saved somebody’s life.”