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Review of Operations by Segment (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2014
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Schedule of operations by segment |
|  | Three Months Ended
|  | March 31
(In thousands) |  | 2014 |  | 2013
Revenues From Continuing Operations |  |  |  |  |  |
Harsco Metals & Minerals |  | $ | 353,038 |  |  | $ | 337,324 |
Harsco Infrastructure |  | — |  |  | 216,059 |
Harsco Industrial |  | 102,100 |  |  | 90,446 |
Harsco Rail |  | 57,561 |  |  | 71,566 |
Total revenues from continuing operations |  | $ | 512,699 |  |  | $ | 715,395 |
Operating Income (Loss) From Continuing Operations
Harsco Metals & Minerals |  | $ | 23,218 |  |  | $ | 23,229 |
Harsco Infrastructure |  | — |  |  | (7,052 | )
Harsco Industrial |  | 16,571 |  |  | 15,609 |
Harsco Rail |  | 5,499 |  |  | 3,178 |
Corporate (a) |  | (12,949 | ) |  | (9,179 | )
Total operating income from continuing operations |  | $ | 32,339 |  |  | $ | 25,785 |
(a) For the three months ended March 31, 2014, Corporate includes a $2.1 million loss on disposal of the Harsco Infrastructure Segment and transaction costs and $1.4 million of net periodic pension cost for defined benefit pension plans retained by the Company as part of the Infrastructure transaction.
Reconciliation of segment operating income to income from continuing operations before income taxes and equity income |
|  | Three Months Ended
|  | March 31
(In thousands) |  | 2014 |  | 2013
Segment operating income |  | $ | 45,288 |  |  | $ | 34,964 |
General Corporate expense |  | (12,949 | ) |  | (9,179 | )
Operating income from continuing operations |  | 32,339 |  |  | 25,785 |
Interest income |  | 297 |  |  | 406 |
Interest expense |  | (11,421 | ) |  | (11,743 | )
Change in fair value to unit adjustment liability |  | (2,546 | ) |  | — |
Income from continuing operations before income taxes and equity loss |  | $ | 18,669 |  |  | $ | 14,448 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the revenue and profit or loss for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss. + References No definition available. + Details
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