Car washes · Texas

WhiteWater Express Car Wash

Houston, TX · ~777 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WhiteWater Express Car Wash runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Car washes workplace, earning a grade F.

WhiteWater Express Car Wash: 5.0 TCR = 236% of Car washes BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WhiteWater Express Car Wash safety composite

WhiteWater Express Car Wash scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

WhiteWater Express Car Wash: 4.1 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2023

WhiteWater Express Car Wash's TCR rose 1.7 from 4.1 in 2022 to 5.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811192 · Houston, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 236% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #22/48
  • PHOTO Store 061
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~777 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 061 (0.0 TCR gap)

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WhiteWater Express Car Wash in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WhiteWater Express Car Wash averages 5.0 TCR (236% of the Car washes BLS benchmark).

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

WhiteWater Express Car Wash TCR series: 2022=4.1 · 2023=5.8 · BLS 2.1

Where WhiteWater Express Car Wash falls in its industry

237 Car washes establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 48 Car washes employers in Texas.

WhiteWater Express Car Wash (777 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 02004006008001,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate WhiteWater Express Car Wash
WhiteWater Express Car Wash (777 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5

WhiteWater Express Car Wash has more 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
2023 5.8 5.8 35 2 0
2022 4.1 4.1 19 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811192 · TX · Houston

237 Car washes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 Store 061 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 302 - University 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 339 - Carolina Lily 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Loop 1604 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hendrick Medical Center South 777 FTE
STATE-SIZE EDP Renewables North America LLC 776 FTE
STATE-SIZE DNT Construction LLC 776 FTE
STATE-SIZE TXMYK - MYKAWA 778 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Pr Operations LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Contech Denst 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Spirit Mountain Recreation Area 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Senior Resource Connection 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hillside Farm Labor Contracting, Inc 777 FTE
NAT-SIZE Veritas Technologies LLC - Roseville 777 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. Fletcher Creamer & Son Inc. 777 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillrom 777 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: 2023, 2022. 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.