Car washes · North Carolina

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304

Huntersville, NC · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304 runs at 377% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Car washes workplace, earning a grade F.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304: 7.9 TCR = 377% of Car washes BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304 safety composite

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304 held a steady TCR band

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 23.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=23.7 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 377% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/22
  • PHOTO Store 065
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 065 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304 averages 7.9 TCR (377% of the Car washes BLS benchmark).

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

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304 TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=23.7 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304 falls in its industry

237 Car washes establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #14 safest of 22 Car washes employers in North Carolina.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304 (24 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304
Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304 (24 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304 has fewer 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 23.7 11.9 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811192 · NC · Huntersville

237 Car washes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 117 employers in Huntersville, 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 Store 065 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 316 - Wake Forest 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Car Wash Enterprises 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mighty Wash Operations #12 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Open Grounds Farm, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super-Sod Charlotte 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland Farms, Inc 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL LNM-EST 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR McGuire Nuclear 1,045 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center 1,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR Huntersville Field Support Center 929 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metrolina Greenhouses - Huntersville NC 725 FTE
NAT-TCR B.V. Dairy 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AmeriCare Plus - Mecklenburg 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR KHC 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR F3 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rob Middleton Construction, LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE SAS Services Ontario, Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Mews Apartments and Townhomes 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake City Office 24 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: 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.