Photos: 1989 Standard Gravure shooting

19 years later, survivor looks back

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Paramedics on the scene of the 1989 Standard Gravure shooting

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Raw video: Witnesses of Standard Gravure shooting speak

WHAS11 coverage of the 1989 Standard Gravure shooting

(WHAS11) - Louisville has felt the impact of workplace violence. Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of the Standard Gravure massacre in 1989.

Chuck Olmsted talked with one survivor of that tragedy who believes the slaughter in Henderson proves companies have yet to learn lessons from the past.

Mike Campbell counts himself among the lucky ones, shot six times but he survived the rage of disgruntled worker Joseph Wesbecker who roamed the corridors of the printing plant with his AK-47 and satchel of ammo to kill 8 people and wound nearly a dozen more before finally turning a gun on himself.

Today Campbell still laments how easy it is for people to buy weapons and believes company managements still fail to spot and diffuse tensions in the workplace before they explode.

And he says that mindset is even more dangerous in today's worsening economic climate.

Campbell says he hopes maybe this is the last workplace massacre, but he says he doubts it.