Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses · Kentucky

Specialty Foods Group, LLC

Owensboro, KY · ~639 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Specialty Foods Group, LLC runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

Specialty Foods Group, LLC: 4.3 TCR = 132% of Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Specialty Foods Group, LLC safety composite

Specialty Foods Group, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Specialty Foods Group, LLC: 2.4 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Specialty Foods Group, LLC's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.4 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Owensboro, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 132% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Devro, Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 156 inj
  • SIZE ~639 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Devro, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Specialty Foods Group, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Specialty Foods Group, LLC averages 4.3 TCR (132% of the Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Specialty Foods Group, LLC TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Specialty Foods Group, LLC falls in its industry

613 Cooked meats made from purchas establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Cooked meats made from purchas employers in Kentucky.

Specialty Foods Group, LLC (639 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Specialty Foods Group, LLC
Specialty Foods Group, LLC (639 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Specialty Foods Group, LLC has more employees than the Cooked meats made from purchased carcass median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 3.1 3.1 19 1 0
2023 3.5 2.9 18 5 0
2022 6.5 6.2 35 11 0
2021 4.9 4.3 31 6 0
2020 5.6 5.1 34 9 0
2017 2.4 2.4 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · KY · Owensboro

613 Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 184 employers in Owensboro, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Devro, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fair Oaks Farms, West Plant 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooked - Nebraska City NE 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buffalo Trace Distillery 640 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mazak Corporation Florence Kentucky 637 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Sullivan University System 637 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baptist Health Richmond 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Health Regional Hospital 2,305 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Public Schools 969 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owensboro Independent 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish Match 816 FTE
NAT-TCR Heat Seal, LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Iroquois Bio-Energy 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR New Broadview Manor Home for Adults aka New Broadview Manor Home for Adults LHCSA 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Patrick Hyundai 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amy's Kitchen, Inc. 639 FTE
NAT-SIZE JTM Food Group 639 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caprock Home Health Services, Inc. 639 FTE
NAT-SIZE Titanium Metals Corporation - TIMET 639 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.