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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549

FORM 11-K

ANNUAL REPORTS OF EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE, SAVINGS
AND SIMILAR PLANS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

(Mark One)

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

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009.

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.


L. B. Foster Company Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
(Full title of the plan and the address of plan, if different from that of the issuer named below)


L. B. FOSTER COMPANY
415 Holiday Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
(Name of issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and the address of its principal executive office)

 
 

 



 
Financial Statements and
Other Financial Information
 
L. B. Foster Company Savings Plan for
Bargaining Unit Employees
December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the
Year Ended December 31, 2009
With Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 
 

 

L. B. Foster Company
Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
Financial Statements and
Other Financial Information
 
December 31, 2009 and 2008,
and the Year Ended December 31, 2009
 
 
Contents
 
   
Financial Statements
 
   
   
Other Financial Information
 
   

 

 
 

 


REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
 
The Plan Administrator
L. B. Foster Company
Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
We have audited the accompanying statements of net assets available for benefits of the L. B. Foster Company Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related statement of changes in net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2009. 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. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Plan's internal control over financial reporting. Our audits 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 internal 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, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and 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 at December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the changes in its net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2009, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
 
Our audits were performed for the purpose of forming an opinion on the financial statements taken as a whole. The accompanying supplemental schedule of assets (held at end of year) as of December 31, 2009 is presented for purposes of additional analysis and is not a required part of the financial statements but is supplementary information required by the Department of Labor's Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. This supplemental schedule is the responsibility of the Plan's management. The supplemental schedule has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in our audits of the financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the financial statements taken as a whole.
 
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
June 28, 2010
 
 

 
 
 
Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
             
Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits
 
             
             
   
December 31,
 
   
2009
   
2008
 
Assets
           
Investments, at fair value
  $ 1,225,780     $ 981,415  
Participant loans
    52,859       59,401  
Net assets available for benefits, at fair value
    1,278,639       1,040,816  
                 
Adjustment from fair value to contract value
               
for investments in fully benefit-responsive
               
investment contracts
          4,543  
Net assets available for benefits
  $ 1,278,639     $ 1,045,359  
                 
See accompanying notes
               
                 

 
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Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
     
Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits
     
Year Ended December 31, 2009
     
     
Additions
   
Investment income:
   
Interest and dividends
  $ 32,769    
Net realized/unrealized appreciation in investment fair value
    181,702    
Other
    1,039    
Total investment income
    215,510    
           
Contributions:
         
Employee
    79,586    
Employer
    32,047    
Total contributions
    111,633    
      327,143    
           
Deductions
         
Deductions from net assets attributable to:
         
Benefit payments
    93,225    
Administrative expenses
    638    
      93,863    
Increase in net assets available for benefits
    233,280    
           
Net assets available for benefits, beginning of year
    1,045,359    
Net assets available for benefits, end of year
  $ 1,278,639    
           
See accompanying notes.
         

 
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L. B. Foster Company
Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
Notes to Financial Statements
 
December 31, 2009 and 2008
 

 
1. Description of Plan
 
The following brief description of the L. B. Foster Company Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees (the Plan) is provided for general information purposes only. Participants should refer to the summary plan description as amended on May 1, 2007, for more complete information.
 
 
General
 
The Plan is a defined contribution plan extended to union hourly employees of L. B. Foster Company (the Company) who have attained age 18 and are employed at locations specified by the Plan. The L. B. Foster Investment Committee, appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company, 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
 
Contributions under the Plan are made by both the participants and the Company. A participant may elect to make deferred savings contributions on a pretax basis ranging up to 75% of annual compensation subject to Internal Revenue Code limitations. A participant who elects to make deferred savings contributions of at least 5% can also elect to make additional voluntary contributions on an after-tax basis provided, however, that the sum of the deferred savings and voluntary employee contributions does not exceed 100% of the participant’s annual compensation. Participant and company contributions are invested in accordance with participant elections.
 
Company contributions are made pursuant to the terms of the collective bargaining agreements applicable to the Company’s specific locations. Eligible employees of Spokane, Washington, shall have a company matching contribution of $0.50 for every $1.00 contributed by the employee on the first 4% to 6% of annual compensation, based upon years of service, as defined by the Plan. Eligible employees of the Bedford, Pennsylvania, facility shall have a company matching contribution of $0.50 for every $1.00 contributed by the employee, up to the first 5% of the employee’s compensation. Matching contributions will only be made if the employee contributes to the Plan. The Company’s contributions may be reduced by accumulated forfeitures. During the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company utilized forfeitures of $682 to offset company contributions. At December 31, 2009, no forfeitures were available to reduce future company contributions. At December 31, 2008, forfeitures of $682 were available to reduce future company contributions.
 
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L. B. Foster Company
Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 
 
1. Description of Plan (continued)
 
 
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 plus or minus related earnings (losses). Participants are 100% vested in the Company’s contributions after three years of eligible service or attaining age 65.
 
Notwithstanding the above, a participant who terminates from the Plan by reason of retirement, disability, or death is fully vested in their participant account.
 
 
Distributions
 
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 distribution occurs and that the participant has completed at least five years of service.
 
As provided by the Plan, the distribution to which a participant is entitled by reason of normal, early, or disability retirement, death, or termination of employment may be made in the form of a 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.
 
 
Withdrawals
 
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 attributable to deferred savings contributions and related earnings. The Plan also allows for age 59½ in-service withdrawals of any portion or all of the participant’s vested account balance.
 

 
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L. B. Foster Company
Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 

 
1. Description of Plan (continued)
 
 
Participants’ Accounts
 
Each participant’s account is credited with the participant’s pretax and voluntary contributions, the participant’s allocable share of company contributions, and related earnings of the funds. Participants’ accounts may be invested in 10% increments into any of the mutual funds available under the Plan at the direction of the participant.
 
 
Loans
 
A participant may obtain a loan from the vested portion of their account. The loan proceeds (subject to a minimum of $1,000 and a maximum of $50,000) 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 without penalty at any time. 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.
 
 
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
 
Valuation of Investments
 
Mutual fund values are based on the underlying investments in securities. Mutual fund securities traded on security exchanges are valued at the latest quoted sales price. Securities traded on a national securities exchange are valued at the last reported sales price on the last business day of the plan year. Loans receivable from participants are valued at cost which approximates fair value.
 

 
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L. B. Foster Company
Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (continued)
 
Realized gain or loss includes recognized gains and losses on the sale of investments. Unrealized appreciation or depreciation represents changes in value from original cost. Dividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date and interest income is accrued as earned.
 
As described above, the investments of the Plan are concentrated in mutual funds primarily consisting of stocks and bonds. Realization of amounts disclosed as net assets available for benefits is dependent on the results of these markets.
 
 
Basis of Accounting
 
The financial statements of the Plan are maintained on the accrual basis.
 
 
Use of Estimates
 
The preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
 
 
Expenses
 
The Company, as provided by the Plan, pays expenses of the Plan. Expenses incurred to establish and maintain a loan are charged to the applicable participant.
 

 
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L. B. Foster Company
Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 

 
3. Investments
 
For the year ended December 31, 2009, the Plan’s investments (including investments bought, sold, and held during the year) appreciated (depreciated) in value as follows:
 
         
Net Realized/
 
         
Unrealized
 
   
Fair Market
   
Appreciation
 
   
Value
   
(Depreciation)
 
             
Fidelity Investments:
           
Government Income Fund
  $ 163,176     $ (8,261 )
Equity Income
    462       39  
Balanced Fund
    121,548       23,775  
Value Fund
    477       54  
International Discovery Fund
    33        
Low Price Stock Fund
    50       1  
Retirement Government Money Market Fund
    134,511        
Spartan U.S. Equity Index Fund
    157,220       30,804  
Freedom Income Fund
    8,253       792  
Freedom 2000
    1,150       129  
Freedom 2005
    1,493       193  
Freedom 2010
    22,733       4,077  
Freedom 2015
          5  
Freedom 2020
    61,049       12,355  
Freedom 2025
    414       7  
Freedom 2030
    34,684       7,023  
Freedom 2035
    65,879       13,373  
Freedom 2040
    27,312       5,465  
Freedom 2045
    610       7  
Mutual Shares Class A
    168,354       31,613  
PIMCO Total Return Fund
    49       (1 )
Allianz NFJ Small Cap Value Fund
    66        
Davis NY Venture Fund
    255,073       60,240  
L. B. Foster Company Stock Fund
    145       12  
L. B. Foster Company Stock Purchase Account
    1,039        
    $ 1,225,780     $ 181,702  


 
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L. B. Foster Company
Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 

 
3. Investments (continued)
 
The fair value of investments representing 5% or more of the Plan’s net assets at December 31, 2009 and 2008, follows:
 
   
2009
   
2008
 
Fidelity Investments:
           
Government Income Fund
  $ 163,176     $ 156,537  
Retirement Government Money Market Fund
    134,511       86,894  
Spartan U.S. Equity Index Fund
    157,220       162,974  
Freedom 2035
    65,879       15,854  
Balanced Fund
    121,548       88,112  
Mutual Shares Class A
    168,354       146,259  
Davis NY Venture Fund
    255,073       212,356  

 
4. Income Tax Status
 
The Plan has not received a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service stating that the Plan is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code). However, the plan administrator believes that the Plan has been designed to comply with and is operating in accordance with the requirements of the Code and, therefore, believes the Plan is qualified and the related trust is exempt from taxation.
 
 
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.
 

 
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L. B. Foster Company
Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 

 
6. 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.
 
 
7. 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 for 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.
 
Investments included in the statements of net assets available for benefits in mutual funds totaling $1,224,596 and in the Company’s common stock funds of $1,184 are stated at fair value as of December 31, 2009. These investments are based upon daily unadjusted quoted prices and, therefore, are considered Level 1.
 

 
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L. B. Foster Company
Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
Notes to Financial Statements (continued)
 

 
7. Fair Value Measurements (continued)
 
Participant loans are valued at amortized cost, which approximates fair value, and are considered Level 3, and a summary of changes in the fair value for the year ended December 31, 2009, follows:
 
Balance, beginning of year
  $ 59,401  
Issuances
    19,240  
Repayments and distributions
    (25,782 )
Balance, end of year
  $ 52,859  

 
8. Reconciliation Between Financial Statements and Form 5500
 
The following is a reconciliation of net assets available for benefits per the financial statements to the Form 5500 at December 31, 2008:
 
Net assets available for benefits per the financial statements
  $ 1,045,359  
Adjustment to report collective trust fund at fair value
    (4,543 )
Net assets available for benefits per the Form 5500
  $ 1,040,816  

 
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Other Financial Information

 
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Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
               
EIN #25-1324733 Plan #014
 
               
Schedule H, Line 4i – Schedule of Assets
 
(Held at End of Year)
 
               
December 31, 2009
 
               
           
Fair
 
Identity of Issue, Borrower,
   
Shares
   
Market
 
Lessor, or Similar Party
Description of Investment
 
Held
   
Value
 
               
Fidelity Investments*:
             
Government Income Fund
Government obligations
    15,705     $ 163,176  
Equity Income
Equity income fund
    12       462  
Balanced Fund
Equities
    7,430       121,548  
Value Fund
Equities
    8       477  
International Discovery Fund
Equities
    1       33  
Low Price Stock Fund
Equities
    2       50  
Retirement Government Money
Government obligations,
               
Market Fund
money market securities
    134,511       134,511  
Spartan U.S. Equity Index Fund
Equities
    3,987       157,220  
Freedom Income Fund
Equity funds, fixed income funds
    768       8,253  
Freedom 2000
Equity funds, fixed income funds
    101       1,150  
Freedom 2005
Equity funds, fixed income funds
    149       1,493  
Freedom 2010
Equity funds, fixed income funds
    1,817       22,733  
Freedom 2020
Equity funds, fixed income funds
    4,864       61,049  
Freedom 2025
Equity funds, fixed income funds
    40       414  
Freedom 2030
Equity funds, fixed income funds
    2,799       34,684  
Freedom 2035
Equity funds, fixed income funds
    6,421       65,879  
Freedom 2040
Equity funds, fixed income funds
    3,815       27,312  
Freedom 2045
Equity funds, fixed income funds
    72       610  
Mutual Shares Class A
Equities
    8,833       168,354  
PIMCO Total Return Fund
Fixed income securities
    5       49  
Allianz NFJ Small Cap Value Fund
Equities
    3       66  
Davis NY Venture Fund
Equities
    8,233       255,073  
                1,224,596  
                   
 
 
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L. B. Foster Company
 
Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
 
               
EIN #25-1324733 Plan #014
 
               
Schedule H, Line 4i – Schedule of Assets
 
(Held at End of Year) (continued)
 
               
   
               
           
Fair
 
Identity of Issue, Borrower,
   
Shares
   
Market
 
Lessor, or Similar Party
Description of Investment
 
Held
   
Value
 
               
L. B. Foster Company*:
             
Stock Fund
Common stock
    5       145  
Stock Purchase Account
Money market securities
          1,039  
                1,184  
                1,225,780  
                   
Outstanding participant loans*
Participant loans, interest rates
               
 
ranging from 4.25% to 9.50%,
               
 
various maturities ranging from
               
 
one year to ten years
            52,859  
              $ 1,278,639  
                   
*Party in interest
                 
                   


 
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EXHIBIT INDEX
 

 
Exhibit 23.1                      Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 

 
 

 


 
SIGNATURES
 

 
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 Savings Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
(Name of Plan)
 
 
 
Date:  June 28, 2010
 
/s/ David J. Russo
David J. Russo
Senior Vice President,
Chief Financial and Accounting Officer and Treasurer