Car washes · California

5 Minute Car Wash

Modesto, CA · ~125 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

5 Minute Car Wash runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Car washes workplace, earning a grade F.

5 Minute Car Wash: 4.5 TCR = 215% of Car washes BLS 2.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

5 Minute Car Wash safety composite

5 Minute Car Wash scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

5 Minute Car Wash: 5.3 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

5 Minute Car Wash's TCR rose 0.7 from 5.3 in 2017 to 6.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811192 · Modesto, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.5 · 215% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/39
  • PHOTO DFW area
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFW area (0.0 TCR gap)

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5 Minute Car Wash in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 5 Minute Car Wash averages 4.5 TCR (215% of the Car washes BLS benchmark).

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

5 Minute Car Wash TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=8 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=8.9 · 2023=6 · BLS 2.1

Where 5 Minute Car Wash falls in its industry

237 Car washes establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 39 Car washes employers in California.

5 Minute Car Wash (125 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 5 Minute Car Wash
5 Minute Car Wash (125 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5

5 Minute Car Wash has more employees than the Car washes 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
2023 6.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 8.9 0.0 3 0 0
2021 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 8.0 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811192 · CA · Modesto

237 Car washes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 418 employers in Modesto, CA · 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 DFW area 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cherry Creek 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clydesdale Holding LLC 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Judson 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maywood Farms 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bowland Vineyard Management, Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ventura Pacific 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Farms LLC 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30240) 3,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modesto Operations 3,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-930 3,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR 930 DOCTORS MEDICAL CENTER OF MODESTO 2,759 FTE
NAT-TCR SPR Packaging, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ATC Trailers 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bratton Masonry - WA/OR 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR New Process Steel, L.P. Alsip 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Exxel Outdoors, LLC Haleyville AL location 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Super Stop & Shop 0852 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100619 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100604 125 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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