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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 11-K

 

 

(Mark One)

ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016

OR

 

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.

For the transition period from                      to                     

Commission file number 0-10436.

 

 

 

A. Full title of the plan and the address of plan, if different from that of the issuer named below

L.B. Foster Company 401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan

 

B. Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and the address of its principal executive office

L.B. FOSTER COMPANY

415 Holiday Drive

Pittsburgh, PA 15222

 

 

 


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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit 23.1     Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 


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L.B. Foster Company

401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan

Financial Statements

and Supplemental Schedule

December 31, 2016 and 2015 and the

Year Ended December 31, 2016

Contents

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

     1  

Financial Statements

  

Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits

     2  

Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits

     3  

Notes to Financial Statements

     4  

Supplemental Schedule

     12  

Schedule H, Line 4i – Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)

     13  

Signature

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Participants and Audit Committee of

L.B. Foster Company

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

We have audited the accompanying statements of net assets available for benefits of the L.B. Foster Company 401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan (the “Plan”) as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, and the related statement of changes in net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2016. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. The Plan is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Plan’s control over financial reporting. Accordingly we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of the Plan as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, and the changes in net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2016, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

The supplemental information in the accompanying schedule of assets (held at end of year) as of December 31, 2016, has been subjected to audit procedures performed in conjunction with the audit of the Plan’s financial statements. The supplemental information is presented for the purpose of additional analysis and is not a required part of the basic financial statements but includes supplemental information required by the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. The supplemental information is the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our audit procedures included determining whether the supplemental information reconciles to the financial statements or the underlying accounting and other records, as applicable and performing procedures to test the completeness and accuracy of the information presented in the supplemental information. In forming our opinion on the supplemental information in the accompanying schedules, we evaluated whether the supplemental information, including its form and content, is presented in conformity with the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. In our opinion, the supplemental information in the accompanying schedule is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the financial statements as a whole.

/s/ Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP

Charleston, West Virginia

June 29, 2017

 

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L.B. Foster Company

401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan

Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits

 

     December 31,  
     2016      2015  

Assets

     

Investments, at fair value

   $ 68,997,030      $ 64,520,865  

Receivables:

     

Notes receivable from participants

     1,352,215        1,242,764  

Contributions receivable from employer

     95,664        798,898  

Contributions receivable from employee

     102,668        98,362  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
     1,550,547        2,140,024  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net assets available for benefits

   $ 70,547,576      $ 66,660,889  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

See accompanying notes.

 

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L.B. Foster Company

401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan

Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits

Year Ended December 31, 2016

 

Additions

  

Investment income:

  

Interest and dividends

   $ 2,446,767  

Net realized/unrealized appreciation in investment fair value

     2,257,535  
  

 

 

 

Total investment income

     4,704,302  

Interest income from notes receivable from participants

     52,681  

Contributions:

  

Employee

     2,956,826  

Employer

     1,293,598  

Rollover

     360,306  
  

 

 

 

Total contributions

     4,610,730  
  

 

 

 

Total additions

     9,367,713  
  

 

 

 

Deductions

  

Deductions from net assets attributable to:

  

Benefit payments

     5,470,446  

Administrative expenses

     17,283  
  

 

 

 

Total deductions

     5,487,729  
  

 

 

 

Increase in net assets available for benefits before transfers

     3,879,984  

Transfers in from affiliated plan*

     6,703  
  

 

 

 

Increase in net assets available for benefits after transfers

     3,886,687  

Net assets available for benefits, beginning of year

     66,660,889  
  

 

 

 

Net assets available for benefits, end of year

   $ 70,547,576  
  

 

 

 

 

* L.B.Foster Company Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees

See accompanying notes.

 

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L.B. Foster Company

401(K) and Profit Sharing Plan

Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2016 and 2015

1. Description of Plan

The following brief description of the L.B. Foster Company 401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan (the “Plan”) is provided for general information purposes. Participants should refer to the summary plan description for more complete information. The plan document is the governing instrument and should be referred to for a full description of the Plan and its provisions.

General

The Plan is a defined contribution plan extended to all eligible employees of L.B. Foster Company (the “Company”) who have attained age 18. Eligible employees are automatically enrolled in the plan. The L.B. Foster Company Investment Committee, appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company, collectively serves as the plan administrator. The Plan is subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) as amended.

Contributions and Forfeitures

Contributions under the Plan are made by both the participants and the Company. Participants may contribute up to 75% of their annual pretax compensation and up to 100% of their compensation on an after-tax basis, subject to Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) limitations. Participant contributions and employer matching contributions are invested in accordance with participant elections. The Plan contains an auto-enrollment provision of 3%. In the event that a participant does not make an investment election, contributions are invested in the Fidelity Freedom Fund (target date retirement fund) that coincides with the participant’s date of normal retirement age, until such time as an election is made by the participant. The participant may transfer contributions defaulted to these funds into other investment options at the participant’s discretion.

The Plan includes a provision for an immediate Company match. Participants receive a Company match of 100% of the first 1% of their eligible compensation and 50% of the next 6% of their eligible compensation for a maximum Company match of 4%. To be eligible for the Company’s matching contributions, participants must make pretax deferral contributions or Roth 401(k) after-tax deferral contributions. The Plan will match the combined total of these contributions up to the matching limit.

The Company, upon resolution of the Board of Directors, may make a discretionary profit-sharing contribution of an amount out of, but not in excess of, the Company’s current or accumulated profits. Participants must have attained one year of service as of the last day of the plan year in order to be eligible for the discretionary profit-sharing contribution, if any, for that year.

 

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1. Description of Plan (continued)

 

Discretionary profit-sharing contributions are directed into eligible participant accounts based on the participants’ investment elections at the time the contribution is made. Discretionary profit-sharing contributions of $0 and $750,000 were approved for 2016 and 2015, respectively. The Company’s matching contributions may be reduced by forfeitures that accumulate from terminations of participants with non-vested employer matching contributions. During the year ended December 31, 2016, forfeitures of $62,430 were utilized to reduce Company contributions. At December 31, 2016 and 2015, forfeitures of $34,993 and $16,286, respectively, were available to reduce future Company contributions.

Participant Accounts

Each participant account is credited with the participant’s contributions, the participant’s allocable share of Company contributions, and related earnings of the funds. Participant accounts may be invested in 10% increments into Company stock or any of the mutual funds available under the Plan or other investment securities through a self-directed brokerage option, at the direction of the participant.

Vesting

A participant’s vested interest in the Plan on any date is equal to the sum of the values of (a) that portion of the participant’s account attributable to the participant’s contributions and (b) that portion of the participant’s account attributable to the Company’s contributions multiplied by the applicable vesting percentage, (c) plus related earnings (losses). Participants are 100% vested in Company contributions after two years of eligible service.

Notwithstanding the above, a participant who terminates from the Plan by reason of retirement, disability, or death is fully vested in his or her participant account.

Benefit Payments

Normal retirement age is 65. Early retirement age is 55, provided that the participant has at least five years of service. In addition, a participant may obtain an early retirement distribution prior to reaching age 55, provided that the participant will turn 55 in the year the distribution occurs and that the participant has at least five years of service. The Plan also allows for age 59 12 in-service withdrawals of all or any portion of the participant’s vested account balance.

Notes Receivable from Participants

A participant may borrow from the vested portion of his or her account, subject to a minimum of $1,000 and a maximum of $50,000. The loan proceeds are deducted from the participant’s account and are repaid by means of payroll deductions. Loans are required to be repaid within 60 months from the date on which the loan is originally granted and may be prepaid early without penalty. The repayment period for a loan that is obtained for purchasing a primary residence may be as long as 120 months. The loan carries a reasonable interest rate as determined by the plan sponsor. The interest rate is computed on the date the loan is requested and remains fixed for the full term of the loan.

 

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1. Description of Plan (continued)

 

As provided by the Plan, the distribution to which a participant is entitled by reason of normal, early, late, or disability retirement, death, or termination of employment may be made in the form of direct rollover, annuity, cash, or partly in cash and partly as an annuity. The amount of such distribution is equal to the participant’s vested account balance on the valuation date.

Under the Plan, a participant may elect to withdraw voluntary, after-tax contributions made to the Plan prior to January 1, 1987. Such withdrawals are subject to a $1,000 minimum. In the event of hardship and subject to certain restrictions and limitations, as defined by the Plan document, a participant may withdraw their vested interest in the portion of their account, subject to a $500 minimum, attributable to matching, fixed and discretionary contributions, and related earnings.

Plan Termination

Although it has not expressed any intention to do so, the Company has the right under the Plan to discontinue its contributions at any time and to terminate the Plan subject to the provisions of ERISA. Should the Plan be terminated, participants will become fully vested in their accounts, and the assets of the Plan would be distributed to the participants based on their individual account balances as determined under the Plan provisions.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Accounting

The financial statements of the Plan are maintained under the accrual method of accounting in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”).

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in accordance with GAAP requires management to make estimates that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements, accompanying notes, and supplemental schedule. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Risks and Uncertainties

The Plan invests in various investment securities. Investment securities are exposed to various risks such as interest rate, market, and credit risks. Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities, it is at least reasonably possible that changes in the values of investment securities will occur in the near term and that such changes could materially affect participants’ account balances and the amounts reported in the statements of net assets available for benefits.

 

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2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

 

Market values for investments may decline for a number of reasons, including changes in prevailing market and interest rates, increases in defaults, and credit rating downgrades. The fair values assigned to the investments by the Plan are based upon available information believed to be reliable, which may be affected by conditions in the financial markets. The Plan may not be able to sell its investments when it desires to do so or to realize what it perceives to be its fair value in the event of a sale.

Valuation of Investments and Income Recognition

Investments are reported at fair value. Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. See Note 4 for discussion of fair value measurements.

Net appreciation includes the Plan’s gains and losses on investments bought and sold as well as held during the year. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date and interest income is accrued as earned. Plan assets are concentrated in Company stock, self-directed brokerage accounts, and mutual funds consisting primarily of stocks and bonds. Realization of the Plan’s net assets available for benefits is dependent on the results of these markets.

Notes Receivable from Participants

Notes receivable from participants represent participant loans that are recorded at their unpaid principal balance plus any accrued but unpaid interest. Interest income on notes receivable from participants is recorded when it is earned and is reported within interest and dividends on the statement of changes in net assets available for benefits. No allowance for credit losses has been recorded as of December 31, 2016 or 2015. If a participant ceases to make loan repayments and the plan administrator deems the participant loan to be a distribution, the participant loan balance is reduced and a benefit payment is recorded.

Benefit Payments

Benefits are recorded upon distribution.

 

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2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)

 

Administrative Expenses

The Company, as provided by the Plan, pays expenses of the Plan. Certain administrative functions are performed by employees of the Company. No such employee receives compensation from the Plan. Expenses incurred to establish and maintain a loan are charged to the applicable participant.

Subsequent Events

At the date the financial statements were available to be issued, the Plan’s management concluded that there were no subsequent events requiring adjustments to the financial statements or disclosures as stated herein.

3. Income Tax Status

The underlying volume submitter plan has received an advisory letter from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) dated March 31, 2014 stating that the form of the plan is qualified under Section 401 of the Code and therefore, the related trust is tax-exempt. In accordance with Revenue Procedures 2013-6 and 2011-49, the plan administrator has determined that it is eligible to and has chosen to rely on the current IRS volume submitter advisory letter. Once qualified, the Plan is required to operate in conformity with the Code to maintain its qualified status. The plan administrator believes the Plan is being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Code and therefore believes the Plan is qualified and the related trust is tax-exempt.

GAAP requires plan management to evaluate uncertain tax positions taken by the Plan. The financial statement effects of a tax position are recognized when the position is more likely than not, based on the technical merits, to be sustained upon examination by the IRS. The plan administrator has analyzed the tax positions taken by the Plan, and has concluded that as of December 31, 2016, there are no uncertain positions taken or expected to be taken. The Plan has recognized no interest or penalties related to uncertain tax positions. The Plan is subject to routine audits by taxing jurisdictions; however, there are currently no audits for any tax periods in progress.

 

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4. Fair Value Measurements

The Plan applies the provisions of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (ASC 820), to its financial assets carried in the financial statements at fair value on a recurring basis. ASC 820 defines fair value as the exchange price that would be received to sell an asset in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. ASC 820 also establishes a fair value hierarchy and requires categorization of assets measured at fair value into one of three levels based on the inputs used in the valuation. Assets are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input significant to the fair value measurement. The three levels are defined as:

 

  Level 1 – Observable inputs based on quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets.

 

  Level 2 – Observable inputs, other than those included in Level 1, based on quoted prices for similar assets in active markets or quoted prices for identical assets in inactive markets.

 

  Level 3 – Unobservable inputs that reflect an entity’s own assumptions about the inputs a market participant would use in pricing the asset based on the best information available in the circumstances.

There have been no changes in the methodologies used at December 31, 2016 and 2015, nor have there been any transfers between levels during the years presented. The following is a description of the investments and valuation methodologies used for assets measured at fair value:

Common stock

L.B. Foster common stock is valued daily at the closing price reported on the active market.

Mutual funds

Various mutual funds are offered to the Plan participants. Mutual funds are publicly traded investments and are valued daily at the closing price reported on the active market on which the funds are traded.

 

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4. Fair Value Measurements (Continued)

 

Stable value collective trust fund

Fidelity Managed Income Portfolio Class 1 (“MIP CL 1 Fund”) is the only stable value collective trust fund available to the Plan. The Plan uses the net asset value (“NAV”) per share of the MIP CL 1 Fund provided by the trustee as a practical expedient to estimate fair value. The practical expedient would not be used if it is determined to be probable that the fund will sell the investment for an amount different from the reported NAV. Participant transactions (purchases and sales) may occur daily. If the Plan initiates a full redemption of the MIP CL 1 Fund, the trustee reserves the right to require 12 months’ notification in order to ensure that securities liquidations will be carried out in an orderly business manner. The MIP CL 1 Fund’s units are issued and redeemed daily at the constant NAV of $1 per unit. The Fund’s investment objective is stability of principal and high current income.

Self-directed brokerage accounts

Accounts primarily consist of publicly traded cash reserves, common stocks, preferred stocks, and publicly traded partnerships and trusts that are valued on the basis readily determinable market prices.

Investments, stated at fair value, included in the statements of net assets available for benefits include mutual funds totaling $63,674,806 and $59,719,518, the self-directed brokerage accounts of $2,669,734 and $2,301,406, the Company’s common stock fund of $1,704,924 and $1,456,383 and the Company’s Stock Purchase Account of $970 and $1,050 as of December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively. These investments are valued based upon daily unadjusted quoted prices and, therefore, are considered Level 1.

Excluded from the fair value disclosure above, the investment in the stable value collective trust fund is measured at NAV per share as a practical expedient. The net asset value as of December 31, 2016 and 2015 for the the investment in the MIP CL 1 Fund is $946,596 and $1,042,508, respectively. There are no unfunded commitments in regards to the MIP CL I Fund at December 31, 2016.

5. Transactions with Parties-in-Interest

Certain trustee, accounting, and administrative expenses relating to the maintenance of participant records and the Plan’s administration are absorbed by the Company and may qualify as party-in-interest transactions under ERISA. The Plan also invests in Company stock. The Company is the plan sponsor, and therefore, transactions with the Company may qualify as exempt party-in-interest. Notes receivable from participants also qualify as exempt party-in-interest transactions.

 

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6. Reconciliation of Financial Statements to Form 5500

The Form 5500 has been prepared using the fair value of the underlying investments held by the stable value investment fund, instead of using NAV as the practical expedient to estimate fair value (see note 4). The following is a reconciliation of the net assets available for benefits per the financial statements to Schedule H of Form 5500 as of December 31:

 

     2016      2015  

Net assets available for benefits per financial statements

   $ 70,547,576      $ 66,660,889  

Adjustment from NAV to fair value for stable value collective trust fund investment

     2,329        7,120  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net assets available for benefits per Form 5500

   $ 70,549,905      $ 66,668,009  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The following is a reconciliation of the net increase before transfers in the Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits per the financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2016, to net per Form 5500:

 

Net increase per the financial statements

   $ 3,879,984  

Net change in adjustment from NAV to fair value for stable value collective trust fund investment

     (4,791
  

 

 

 

Net income per Form 5500

   $ 3,875,193  
  

 

 

 

 

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Supplemental Schedule

 

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L.B. Foster Company

401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan

EIN #25-1324733 Plan #201

Schedule H, Line 4i – Schedule of Assets

(Held at End of Year)

December 31, 2016

 

Identity of Issue, Borrower, Lessor, or Similar Party

  

Description of Investment

   Shares
Held
     Fair Market
Value
 

Fidelity Investments*:

        

Government Income Fund

   Government obligations      225,177        2,290,054  

Balanced Fund – Class K

   Equities      76,843        1,692,077  

Low Price Stock Fund – Class K

   Equities      80,348        3,971,582  

International Discovery Fund – ‘Class K

   Equities      71,019        2,583,682  

Capital Appreciation Fund – Class K

   Equities      58,486        1,855,753  

Contrafund K

   Equities      6,531        642,505  

Spartan Extended Market Index Fund – Advantage Class

   Index funds      21,962        1,219,779  

Spartan International Index Fund – Advantage Class

   Index funds      14,263        503,786  

Spartan Small Cap Index – Advantage Class

   Index funds      11,415        209,587  

Spartan US Bond Index Fund – Advantage Class

   Fixed income securities      106,202        1,220,259  

Spartan 500 Index Fund – Advantage Class

   Index funds      65,878        5,160,900  

Freedom Income Fund – Class K

   Equity funds, fixed income funds      113,844        1,321,729  

Freedom 2010 – Class K

   Equity funds, fixed income funds      43,915        554,212  

Freedom 2015 – Class K

   Equity funds, fixed income funds      166,512        2,192,962  

Freedom 2020 – Class K

   Equity funds, fixed income funds      342,816        4,785,710  

Freedom 2025 – Class K

   Equity funds, fixed income funds      149,602        2,182,690  

Freedom 2030 – Class K

   Equity funds, fixed income funds      336,553        5,007,914  

Freedom 2035 – Class K

   Equity funds, fixed income funds      81,881        1,262,609  

Freedom 2040 – Class K

   Equity funds, fixed income funds      105,828        1,633,991  

Freedom 2045 – Class K

   Equity funds, fixed income funds      91,657        1,458,257  

Freedom 2050 – Class K

   Equity funds, fixed income funds      67,684        1,084,975  

Freedom 2055 – Class K

   Equity funds, fixed income funds      29,127        346,903  

Freedom 2060 – Class K

   Equity funds, fixed income funds      6,801        70,861  

Retirement Government Money Market Fund

   Government obligations, money market securities      2,969,281        2,969,281  

Managed Income Portfolio Class 1

   Stable value fund      946,596        946,596  

Franklin Mutual Shares Class Z

   Equities      132,357        3,735,120  

Glenmede Small Cap EQ IS

   Equities      32,268        969,335  

Prudential Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund – Class Q

   Equities      46,058        1,634,133  

Janus Triton N

   Equities      42,308        1,011,591  

PIMCO Total Return Fund

   Fixed income securities      204,035        2,046,472  

PIMCO Real Return Institutional Fund

   Fixed income securities      93,028        1,015,865  

Allianz NFJ Small Cap Value Fund

   Equities      66,100        1,719,250  

Oppenheimer Developing Markets A Fund

   Equities      15,838        506,169  

Sentinel Common Stock A

   Equities      119,208        4,814,814  

Self Directed Brokerage Account

   Equities         2,669,734  
        

 

 

 
           67,291,136  

 

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L.B. Foster Company

401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan

EIN #25-1324733        Plan #201

Schedule H, Line 4i – Schedule of Assets

(Held at End of Year) (continued)

 

Identity of Issue, Borrower, Lessor, or Similar Party

  

Description of Investment

   Shares
Held
     Fair Market
Value
 

L.B. Foster Company*:

        

Stock Fund

  

Common stock

     125,362        1,704,924  

Stock Purchase Account

  

Money market securities

     —          970  
        

 

 

 
           1,705,894  
        

 

 

 
           68,997,030  

Participant loans*

  

Participant loans, interest rates ranging from 4.25% to 7.0%, various maturities ranging from one to thirty years **

        1,352,215  
        

 

 

 
           70,349,244  
        

 

 

 

 

* Party in interest
** Includes loans granted prior to a Plan amendment requiring a five year repayment from the grant date

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit plan) have duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

  

L.B Foster Company 401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan

(Name of Plan)

 

Date: June 29, 2017   

/s/ Brian H. Kelly

Brian H. Kelly

Vice President, Human Resources and Administration

 

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EX-23.1

Exhibit 23.1

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-65885) of our report dated June 29, 2017, with respect to the financial statements and supplemental schedule of L.B. Foster Company 401(k) and Profit Sharing Plan included in this Annual Report on Form 11-K for the year ended December 31, 2016.

/s/ Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP

Charleston, West Virginia

June 29, 2017