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
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).
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
- Devro, Inc.
Devro, Inc.
4.4 TCR
- Cooked - Nebra
Cooked - Nebraska City NE
4.4 TCR
- Hawkeye Smokeh
Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners
4.4 TCR
- This site
Specialty Foods Group, LLC
4.3 TCR
- Fair Oaks Farm
Fair Oaks Farms, West Plant
4.3 TCR
What this shows Specialty Foods Group, LLC averages 4.3 TCR (132% of the Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).
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 establishmentsSafer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.
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 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 →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.