Self-service carwash · North Carolina

313 - Gastonia

Gastonia, NC · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.1
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

313 - Gastonia runs at 673% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Self-service carwash workplace, earning a grade F.

313 - Gastonia: 14.1 TCR = 673% of Self-service carwash BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

313 - Gastonia safety composite

313 - Gastonia scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.6

2023→2024

313 - Gastonia injury rate improved

313 - Gastonia's TCR fell 7.6 from 17.9 in 2023 to 10.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=17.9 · 2024=10.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811192 · Gastonia, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.1 · 673% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/22
  • PHOTO 305 - Rock Hill
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 305 - Rock Hill (0.0 TCR gap)

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313 - Gastonia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 313 - Gastonia averages 14.1 TCR (673% of the Self-service carwash BLS benchmark).

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

313 - Gastonia TCR series: 2023=17.9 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 2.1

Where 313 - Gastonia falls in its industry

237 Self-service carwash establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 22 Self-service carwash employers in North Carolina.

313 - Gastonia (23 employees, TCR 14.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 313 - Gastonia
313 - Gastonia (23 employees, TCR 14.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5

313 - Gastonia has fewer employees than the Self-service carwash median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 10.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 17.9 9.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811192 · NC · Gastonia

237 Self-service carwash employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 182 employers in Gastonia, NC · 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 305 - Rock Hill 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NB46 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 310 - Bryton 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foxfield 15.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN PINES 1 SOW -EST 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cotton Gin 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monroe Growout 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaston County Government 1,711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wix Allen Plant 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gastonia Components and Logistics - Tulip 912 FTE
NAT-TCR Utpri - Price 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Physical Plant 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Truvant PDC South 14.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Hawk County Conservation 14.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Petland Florence 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scot Electrical Products 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Petland Cicero 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE S.P. Richards Boston 23 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.