Car washes · North Carolina

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320

Knightdale, NC · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320 runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Car washes workplace, earning a grade D.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320: 3.2 TCR = 151% of Car washes BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320 safety composite

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 320: 0.0 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2021

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320's TCR rose 9.5 from 0.0 in 2018 to 9.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 3.2 · 151% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #2/22
  • PHOTO Beaumont and surroun…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beaumont and surrounding areas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320 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 320 averages 3.2 TCR (151% 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 320 TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=9.5 · BLS 2.1

Where Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320 falls in its industry

237 Car washes establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #2 safest of 22 Car washes employers in North Carolina.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320 (25 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 320
Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320 (25 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320 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 9.5 9.5 1 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 · Knightdale

237 Car washes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 35 employers in Knightdale, 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 Beaumont and surrounding areas 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buford 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sam's Xpress Car Wash 329 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Qualified Mobile Inc 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fair View Nursery, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE John William Carter III 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill of Berry's 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Andrew Tyson Farms 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schneider Electric Knightdale 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCX Holding, LLC, wholly owned subsid of Hubbell Industrial Controls, Knightdale, NC 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2111 - Knightdale 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1816 173 FTE
NAT-TCR Lake Prairie 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Interboro SD 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Radford Wildgreens 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR US056B: ACS Unit 1 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Robert Bosch, LLC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bellevue Office 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landsberg Indianapolis 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Rollup Door Company - Orlando 25 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.