10.

Income Taxes

The Company files income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction and various state jurisdictions. With few exceptions, the Company is no longer subject to U.S. federal and state income tax examinations by tax authorities for years before 2008.

The federal and state income tax provision consisted of the following:

Year ended December 31,	2012					2011				2010
	Current		Deferred			Current		Deferred		Current		Deferred
Federal	$	34,941	$	(327	)	$	11,371	$	7,948	$	11,675	$	1,112
State		6,635		231			3,926		256		2,814		293
	$	41,576	$	(96	)	$	15,297	$	8,204	$	14,489	$	1,405

The effective income tax rate varied from the statutory federal income tax rate as follows:

Year ended December 31,	2012			2011			2010
Statutory federal income tax rate		35.0	%		35.0	%		35.0	%
State income taxes, net of federal tax benefit		4.0			4.3			4.6
Domestic production activities deduction		(3.0	)		(1.8	)		(2.7	)
Other items		1.0			(0.5	)		(0.9	)
Effective income tax rate		37.0	%		37.0	%		36.0	%

Significant components of the Company's deferred tax assets and liabilities are as follows:

December 31,	2012		2011
Deferred tax assets:
Product liability	$	391	$	646
Employee compensation and benefits		3,343		3,374
Allowances for doubtful accounts and discounts		1,123		1,625
Inventories		688		533
Additional minimum pension liability		17,396		16,176
Stock-based compensation		2,116		1,089
Other		859		259
Total deferred tax assets		25,916		23,702
Deferred tax liabilities:
Pension plans		10,205		9,217
Depreciation		8,069		8,401
Other		354		276
Total deferred tax liabilities		18,628		17,894
Net deferred tax assets	$	7,288	$	5,808

Changes in deferred tax assets relating to the additional minimum pension liability are not charged to expense and are therefore not included in the deferred tax provision; instead they are charged to other comprehensive income.

The Company made income tax payments of approximately $33.0 million, $16.4 million, and $14.6 million, during 2012, 2011, and 2010, respectively. The Company expects to realize its deferred tax assets through tax deductions against future taxable income or carry back against taxes previously paid.

The Company does not believe it has included any "uncertain tax positions" in its federal income tax return or any of the state income tax returns it is currently filing. The Company has made an evaluation of the potential impact of additional state taxes being assessed by jurisdictions in which the Company does not currently consider itself liable. The Company does not anticipate that such additional taxes, if any, would result in a material change to its financial position.