Car washes · Georgia

Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem

Thomaston, GA · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem runs at 284% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Car washes workplace, earning a grade F.

Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem: 6.0 TCR = 284% of Car washes BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem safety composite

Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem: 0.0 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem's TCR rose 11.9 from 0.0 in 2021 to 11.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811192 · Thomaston, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 284% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO 304 - Huntersville
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 304 - Huntersville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem averages 6.0 TCR (284% of the Car washes BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=11.9 · BLS 2.1

Where Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem falls in its industry

237 Car washes establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Car washes employers in Georgia.

Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem (23 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem
Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem (23 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Tidal Wave Auto Spa of Bethlehem 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
2022 11.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811192 · GA · Thomaston

237 Car washes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 28 employers in Thomaston, GA · 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 304 - Huntersville 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Overland Park South 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fred Rd 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bennys Car Wash - Coursey 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Canon Pullet 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clermont Hatchery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROSSMAN APIARIES LLC 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1112 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1112 298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Solo Cup Company Thomaston 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Standard Textile, Thomaston 169 FTE
NAT-TCR Fluid Routing Solutions - Ocala 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Mechanical LLC dba Energy-One 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lane's Professional Pest Elimination, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fs-St. John'S - Br 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 746 - Portland North Store 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hansen Kramer Stucco, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8251 Franklin 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roof Management Services LLC 23 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: 2022, 2021. 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.