Car washes · North Carolina

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 306

Matthews, NC · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 306 runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Car washes workplace, earning a grade D.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 306: 2.8 TCR = 133% of Car washes BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 306 safety composite

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 306 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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 306 held a steady TCR band

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 306's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=8.4 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 133% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/22
  • PHOTO Meridian
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meridian (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sam's Xpress Car Wash 306 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 306 averages 2.8 TCR (133% 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 306 TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=8.4 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Sam's Xpress Car Wash 306 falls in its industry

237 Car washes establishments

Safer than 73% 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 #1 safest of 22 Car washes employers in North Carolina.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 306 (22 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 306
Sam's Xpress Car Wash 306 (22 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 306 has fewer employees than the Car washes median and a lower 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 8.4 8.4 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811192 · NC · Matthews

237 Car washes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 94 employers in Matthews, 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 Meridian 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmville 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AVPX, ENPX, NAPX - EHI Phoenix 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ride & Shine PBL 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE A Plus Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rock Ridge Farms Partnership 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vanguard Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE LNM - 105 -EST 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Matthews Medical Center 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6921-06000 688 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC201 DC201 MATTHEWS NC 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC201 353 FTE
NAT-TCR One World Market Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nwm Warewashing 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CDF - Baltimore 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stockton 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Finishline RNO 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ringling Service Center 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Degesch America Columbia River 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Dixie 22 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.