Jim Beck

"He gave us the truth of what happened to our loved ones"

cmonforton | June 12, 2014

Getting to the truth about the 2010 Upper Big Branch disaster (UBB) is what they wanted. The families of the 29 coal miners who were killed in the Massey Energy coal mine in Raleigh County, WV looked to the investigators for the answers. Jim Beck was instrumental in providing them those answers. Beck was part of the six-person Governor’s Independent Investigation Panel, and he was a key player in finding out the truth. Jim Beck died last week at age 61 from metastatic stomach cancer. “Jim and his team gave me and the other 28 families of UBB the truth of what happened to our loved ones,”…

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