BLACKSBURG, S.C. - A state Transportation Department worker has died after being hit by a dump truck at a work site.

David Stapleton, 46, of Cowpens was killed just before 9 a.m. Monday two miles south of Blacksburg, said Lance Cpl. Bryan McDougald of the Highway Patrol. Stapleton was working as a flag man on a job site.

He was hit by a Transportation Department dump truck carrying about eight tons of asphalt, McDougald said. The truck was backing up.

The driver of the truck was Buford Phillips, 57, of Gaffney.

Stapleton was pronounced dead at the scene. He had worked for the department since August 1999, the Transportation Department said. Phillips has worked with the department since May 1989.

An accident reconstruction team was working at the site and the Highway Patrol and State Transport Police were investigating, McDougald said. No charges had been filed.

It is the first work zone fatality involving a Transportation Department employee since Ted Yandle was killed on Interstate 26 in Richland County in 2001, the agency said.