Car washes · North Carolina

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312

Charlotte, NC · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312 runs at 311% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Car washes workplace, earning a grade F.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312: 6.5 TCR = 311% of Car washes BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312 safety composite

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 312 held a steady TCR band

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312's TCR held near 0.1 from 9.8 in 2018 to 9.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2021=9.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 311% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #11/22
  • PHOTO Sam's Xpress Car Was…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sam's Xpress Car Wash 305 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312 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 312 averages 6.5 TCR (311% 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 312 TCR series: 2018=9.8 · 2019=0 · 2021=9.8 · BLS 2.1

Where Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312 falls in its industry

237 Car washes establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #11 safest of 22 Car washes employers in North Carolina.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312 (20 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312
Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312 (20 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 312 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 9.8 9.8 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 9.8 9.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811192 · NC · Charlotte

237 Car washes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, 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 Sam's Xpress Car Wash 305 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Auto Pride Car Wash, Inc-Mission Car Wash 2 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blanco 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 315 - Hickory 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Steve Thomas Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Smith Farms 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ron Richmond 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Family Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR American Glass and Mirror of Valdosta Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Goya Foods South Jersey 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Biosecurity Building 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR D & J Home Care, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sam's Xpress Car Wash 303 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sam's Xpress Car Wash 305 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Justice Integration Services 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Condex, Inc. 20 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.