Car washes · North Carolina

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 329

Winston-Salem, NC · ~17 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 329 runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Car washes workplace, earning a grade D.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 329: 3.2 TCR = 153% of Car washes BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 329 safety composite

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 329 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.63 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 329: 0.0 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2021

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 329's TCR rose 9.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 9.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811192 · Winston-Salem, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.2 · 153% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #3/22
  • PHOTO Qualified Mobile Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Qualified Mobile Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sam's Xpress Car Wash 329 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 329 averages 3.2 TCR (153% 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 329 TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=9.6 · BLS 2.1

Where Sam's Xpress Car Wash 329 falls in its industry

237 Car washes establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #3 safest of 22 Car washes employers in North Carolina.

Sam's Xpress Car Wash 329 (17 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 329
Sam's Xpress Car Wash 329 (17 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 329 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 9.6 9.6 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 · Winston-Salem

237 Car washes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 234 employers in Winston-Salem, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Qualified Mobile Inc 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fleetlogix - Massachusetts AVBO 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 006 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - NCE 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinston Work Center 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE District Office 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center 4,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Budd Group Janitorial 4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds American Inc. Trade Marketing Services 2,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds Marketing Services Company 1,600 FTE
NAT-TCR Maverick Geneva, NY 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wisconsin Bldg - Sussex 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR La-Z-Boy South 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland of Twinsburg 3.2 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.