Car washes · North Carolina

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 309

Concord, NC · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 309 runs at 462% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Car washes workplace, earning a grade F.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 309: 9.7 TCR = 462% of Car washes BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 309 safety composite

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 309 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 309: 12.6 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 309's TCR rose 4.0 from 12.6 in 2018 to 16.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 462% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/22
  • PHOTO PureMagic Car Wash
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PureMagic Car Wash (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sam's Xpress Car Wash 309 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 309 averages 9.7 TCR (462% 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 309 TCR series: 2018=12.6 · 2019=0 · 2021=16.6 · BLS 2.1

Where Sam's Xpress Car Wash 309 falls in its industry

237 Car washes establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #17 safest of 22 Car washes employers in North Carolina.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 309 (19 employees, TCR 9.7) 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 309
Sam's Xpress Car Wash 309 (19 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 309 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 16.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 12.6 12.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811192 · NC · Concord

237 Car washes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 338 employers in Concord, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR PureMagic Car Wash 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S&W Pressure Wash 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 320 - Knightdale 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CARS Recon Inc Birmingham A 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turf Today Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE A And A Farms, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod USA - Leggett Sod Farm 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Custom Shutters, INC 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1114-Atrium Health Cabarrus (1114) 3,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-CHS NorthEast 2,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-Atrium Health Cabarrus 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CLT3 1,263 FTE
NAT-TCR Hilton Philadelphia at Penn's Landing 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Staples Ontario PSO 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR C. Elton Crews, Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ECCM 9.7 TCR

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.