A Staten Island construction worker was crushed to death by a reversing dump truck driven by his co-worker this afternoon on Richmond Avenue near Rockland Avenue in
New Springville.

Jody Reese, 53, of Tottenville, was standing behind the white Mack truck, out of view of either mirror, police said.
Whenthe driver began to back up, Reese was crushed by the rear and then the front tires.

Emergency responders worked to revive Reese, before he was taken to Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze
where he was pronounced dead.