The 65-year-old man, who was working on the Olympic Village, was found slumped in the exit stairwell of his crane at the site.

A Health and Safety Executive spokesman said no further action would be taken as it was not work-related and the case is now in the hands of the coroner.

The news means the Olympic site still boasts its industry-leading accident record of not suffering a construction fatality since building work began.

A two-minute silence was held at midday for the driver at the Olympic Park.

Steven Valler, contracts manager of the tiling of the acquatic pools at the site, said the silence "started with [a] siren and ended with a siren".

"The whole site was eerily quiet," he added.

This was the second death at the 2012 site since 2009 when another worker died of a heart attack.

That death was also not work-related.

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