Mobile car and truck washes · Tennessee

PureMagic Car Wash

Alcoa, TN · ~96 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

PureMagic Car Wash runs at 460% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Mobile car and truck washes workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.1
industry benchmark (BLS)
9
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares PureMagic Car Wash's OSHA Total Case Rate of 9.7 to the Mobile car and truck washes BLS benchmark of 2.1 (460% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

PureMagic Car Wash's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.1 industry benchmark.

05101520 201920202021 16.82.1 Industry benchmarkPureMagic Car Wash TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 811192.

Where PureMagic Car Wash falls in its industry

309 Mobile car and truck washes establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Mobile car and truck washes employers in Tennessee.

Trend analysis for PureMagic Car Wash

Between 2019 and 2021, PureMagic Car Wash's Total Case Rate worsened from 7.4 to 16.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 128% increase across 2 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 4.8, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 16.8, a spread of 12.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 3 reporting years, PureMagic Car Wash recorded 9 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 9 injuries shown on this page for PureMagic Car Wash are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 811192 - Mobile car and truck washes.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2021)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 11,894 hours worked = 16.82 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
PureMagic Car Wash (this establishment) 9.65 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg
811192 Car Washes industry avg 2.10 BLS IIF, NAICS 811192
Tennessee state avg (all industries) 4.09 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by PureMagic Car Wash to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2021 16.8 16.8 1 0 0
2020 4.8 1.6 3 0 0
2019 7.4 5.9 5 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on PureMagic Car Wash's reported OSHA injury record versus its Mobile car and truck washes peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 460% of the Mobile car and truck washes benchmark, PureMagic Car Wash reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Mobile car and truck washes sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is PureMagic Car Wash's safety grade?
PureMagic Car Wash has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 9.7 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.1 for Mobile car and truck washes.
How many injuries has PureMagic Car Wash reported?
PureMagic Car Wash has reported 9 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 3 years of OSHA data (2021, 2020, 2019). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.