Blue Water Boating Pty Ltd. pleaded guilty to workplace safety breaches which resulted in the death of the worker at Homebush on Septenber 24, 1998.
The state government agency WorkCover told the New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission the worker was fatally injured when he was struck by bricks which fell from a scaffold platform nine feet above where he was working at the Olympic Village site.
The commission was told that the company had been warned a month before the accident that brick guards should be used to prevent the bricks from falling.
Justice Russell Peterson found Blue Water Boating guilty Wednesday of breaching the workplace safety act. The company could have faced a maximum fine of nearly $225,000 (B248,838), but the judge said the breach was a first offence.
A Sydney building company has been fined almost US$50,000 (B
