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Beamish Museum

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First report 5 Dec 2013•Latest report 5 Dec 2013

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Reports, concerns and published responses

Private and voluntary organisations · Registered charity. This page brings together reports naming this recipient and response statements clearly connected to concerns raised in those reports.

Reports
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Naming this recipient

Published responses
0%

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Concerns addressed
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Stated actions
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Described in responses

Reports over time

Reports over time

Reports naming this recipient by issue year.

Evidence profile

Report topics

Share of this recipient’s reports compared with all other recipients.

0%published responses found
0stated actions described

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Concerns and recipient responses

Statements from Beamish Museum linked to the concerns in each report. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.

  1. County Durham and Darlington

    AI-generated summary

    Karl Doran · Prevention of Future Deaths report

    This summary was generated using AI from the published report. Please read the original report for the complete account.

    Report summary

    Karl Doran, a seven-year-old boy volunteering with his father at Beamish Museum, fell from or near a steam roller and was almost immediately crushed by a heavy steel-wheeled trailer. The concern was that Beamish had not carried out appropriate risk assessments or provided direct or indirect managerial supervision for the volunteers’ activities.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Beamish Museum; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Absence of direct or indirect managerial supervision of volunteer activities

    Wider context from the report

    “(1) Beamish had not carried out a appropriate risk assessments to ensure the safety of volunteers such as Karl and his father when engaging in activities around the museum site. There was no direct or indirect managerial supervision of these volunteers activities. ”
    Open source report

    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Beamish Museum; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Lack of appropriate risk assessments for volunteer activities around the museum site

    Wider context from the report

    “(1) Beamish had not carried out a appropriate risk assessments to ensure the safety of volunteers such as Karl and his father when engaging in activities around the museum site. There was no direct or indirect managerial supervision of these volunteers activities. ”
    Open source report
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Published response patterns

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How actions were described at the time

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Information checked against published PFD reports and official responses · Data reviewed 7 Sep 2026 · About data quality and limitations

Data last updated 7 September 2026