An employee of the Department of Sanitation died on Saturday after falling out of a garbage truck while on the job in Queens. Richard Errico, a 19-year veteran of the department, fell off the truck on Douglaston Parkway in Little Neck around 6 p.

The worker was operating a sanitation truck at the yard on Douglaston Parkway near Grand Central Parkway, when he fell out around 5:43 p.m., according to police sources.

A sanitation worker of 19 years died on job Saturday afternoon, city officials report. Richard Errico, 54, died when he fell and was run over by his own truck on Douglaston Parkway around 5:45 p.m., police say.