Car washes · North Carolina

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 316

Wake Forest, NC · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 316 runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Car washes workplace, earning a grade F.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 316: 5.6 TCR = 267% of Car washes BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 316 safety composite

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 316 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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 316: 0.0 → 16.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 316's TCR rose 16.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 16.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811192 · Wake Forest, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.6 · 267% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/22
  • PHOTO Sam's Xpress Car Was…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sam's Xpress Car Wash 301 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sam's Xpress Car Wash 316 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 316 averages 5.6 TCR (267% 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 316 TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=16.8 · BLS 2.1

Where Sam's Xpress Car Wash 316 falls in its industry

237 Car washes establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #8 safest of 22 Car washes employers in North Carolina.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 316 (31 employees, TCR 5.6) 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 316
Sam's Xpress Car Wash 316 (31 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 316 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 16.8 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811192 · NC · Wake Forest

237 Car washes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 67 employers in Wake Forest, 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 301 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cactus Car Wash 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Helotes 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 068 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Todd Glover Farms Inc 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunny Creek Farm Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rowan 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE CPI USA NC LLC - Roxboro 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside Environmental Consultants, LLC 486 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5254 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Wake Forest 145 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5254 326 FTE
NAT-TCR Sam's Xpress Car Wash 301 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Luther Infiniti of Bloomington 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Republic Services 3103 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kishmo Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lorain County Campus 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE DC/Baltimore Enjoy House 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Juvenile Court Clerk 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lynchburg 4974 31 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.