A city sanitation worker was fatally injured Saturday night at a Department of Sanitation yard in Queens.
Richard Errico was driving a yard service truck on Douglaston Parkway near Grand Central Parkway when he fell out around 5:43 p.m., according to police sources.
EMS arrived at the scene and pronounced him dead, police said.
Details of what led to the fall were still unclear Saturday night.
Mayor Eric Adams and DSNY Commissioner Jessica Tisch both offered their condolences to the family of the 19-year DSNY veteran who, they said, had died in the line of duty.
“Richard kept our streets and communities safe and clean for more than 19 years, and we should all keep Richard and his family in our prayers,” Adams said.
He urged New Yorkers to thank the 8,000 sanitation workers like Errico across the city who woke up every day to face “difficult and physically demanding jobs.”
The DSNY commissioner singled out neighborhoods in Queens that Errico had spent his nearly two-decade career trying to keep clean.
He “served the people of Douglaston, Littleneck and Bayside as one of the strongest,” Tisch said. “He did it proudly.”
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