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FILED AS OF DATE:		20140602
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20140530

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			FOSTER L B CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000352825
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	WHOLESALE-METALS SERVICE CENTERS & OFFICES [5051]
		IRS NUMBER:				251324733
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			PA
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-10436
		FILM NUMBER:		14881567

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		415 HOLIDAY DR
		CITY:			PITTSBURGH
		STATE:			PA
		ZIP:			15220
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4129283431

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		415 HOLIDAY DR
		CITY:			PITTSBURGH
		STATE:			PA
		ZIP:			15220
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<P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>UNITED STATES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>FORM SD
</B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center> <P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Specialized Disclosure Report </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:24pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>L.B. Foster
Company </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) </B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B>25-1324733</B></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(State or other jurisdiction</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>of incorporation)</B></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center"><B>415 Holiday Drive, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</B></TD>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>David J. Russo, (412)-928-3417 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report) </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form
applies: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January&nbsp;1 to December&nbsp;31, 2013. </TD></TR></TABLE>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Section&nbsp;1 &#150; Conflict Minerals Disclosure </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Item&nbsp;1.01 Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Conflict Minerals Disclosure </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Form SD of L.B. Foster
Company (the &#147;Company&#148;) is filed pursuant to Rule 13p-1 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (collectively, including Form SD, the &#147;Rule&#148;), for the reporting period January&nbsp;1, 2013 to
December&nbsp;31, 2013. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Rule 13p-1 requires disclosure of certain information when a company manufactures or contracts to manufacture products for which
the minerals specified in the Rule are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. The specified minerals are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, and wolframite, including their derivatives, which are limited to
tantalum, tin, and tungsten (the &#147;Conflict Minerals&#148;). The &#147;Covered Countries&#148; for purposes of Rule 13p-1 are the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Adjoining Countries (as defined in the Rule). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company is a leading manufacturer, fabricator, and distributor of products and services for the rail, construction, energy, and utility markets. The
Company does not directly purchase Conflict Minerals nor do we condone the use of Conflict Minerals that fuel human rights violations. The Company&#146;s Conflict Minerals Policy is publicly available on our website at
<U>http://www.lbfoster.com/corporate/conflict_minerals.asp.</U> <I>The content of any website referred to in this Form SD is included for general information only and not incorporated by reference herein.</I> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Through a review of our supply chain and responses from certain vendors, we have determined that we manufacture or contract to manufacture certain products
that may contain Conflict Minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of such products. These products are as follows: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Based upon our determination that the Rule applies to the above-referenced products, we undertook a good-faith reasonable
country of origin inquiry designed to determine whether any of the Conflict Minerals included in our products originated in the Covered Countries, and whether any of the Conflict Minerals may be from recycled or scrap sources. Based upon Instruction
3 to Item&nbsp;1.01 of Form SD, the Company is not reporting on products manufactured or contracted to be manufactured by Ball Winch, Inc., which was acquired by the Company in November 2013. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Our reasonable country of origin inquiries primarily consisted of sending vendor certifications based on a form developed by the Electronic Industry
Citizenship Coalition-Global e-Sustainability Initiative. The certification requested representations from our immediate suppliers who provide inputs to our manufactured products that may contain Conflict Minerals. Our supply chain is complex, as
there are many third-parties who provide inputs to our direct suppliers. Our direct suppliers were required to provide information on their supply chain and respond whether or not the products sold to the Company contained Conflict Minerals that
originated in Covered Countries or came from recycled or scrap material. Through multiple follow-up efforts, the Company received responses from approximately 84% of solicited vendors indicating that the supplies they sold to the Company did not
include Conflict Minerals originating in the Covered Countries. However, we were unsuccessful in obtaining responses from 100% of solicited suppliers. </P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Our reasonable country of origin inquiries involved following up with non-responsive suppliers multiple times;
yet, despite our good faith efforts, such inquires did not yield the desired number of responses from suppliers. As a result of our inability to receive complete responses from all of our solicited suppliers, we were unable to conclude that we had
no reason to believe that our necessary Conflict Minerals did not originate in the Covered Countries. Therefore, we exercised due diligence on the source and chain of custody of Conflict Minerals contained in the products we manufactured or
contracted to manufacture in calendar year 2013. These due diligence efforts are described in the Conflict Minerals Report that is provided as Exhibit 1.02 to this Form SD. As a result of our due diligence efforts, we were unable to definitively
conclude that the products we manufacture or contract to manufacture were free of Conflict Minerals that originated in the Covered Countries, or that they did come from recycled or scrap materials. </P>

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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As specified in Section&nbsp;2, Item&nbsp;2.01 of this Form SD, the Company is hereby filing its Conflict Minerals Report as Exhibit 1.02 to this Form SD. The
Conflict Minerals Report also is publicly available on our Internet website at <U>www.lbfoster.com</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Section&nbsp;2 &#150; Exhibits </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Item&nbsp;2.01 Exhibits </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The following exhibit is filed as
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned hereunto duly authorized. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" COLSPAN="3"><U>L.B. FOSTER COMPANY</U></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ David J. Russo</P></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>L.B. FOSTER COMPANY </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Conflict Minerals Report </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>For the reporting period from January&nbsp;1, 2013 to December&nbsp;31, 2013 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Conflict Minerals Report (the &#147;Report&#148;) of L.B. Foster Company (the &#147;Company&#148;) has been prepared pursuant to Rule 13p-1 and Form SD
(collectively, the &#147;Rule&#148;) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, for the reporting period January&nbsp;1, 2013 to December&nbsp;31, 2013. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Rule requires disclosure of certain information when a company manufactures or contracts to manufacture products for which the minerals specified in the
Rule are necessary to the functionality or production of those products. The specified minerals are gold, columbite-tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, and wolframite, including their derivatives, which are limited to tantalum, tin, and tungsten (the
&#147;Conflict Minerals&#148;). The &#147;Covered Countries&#148; for purposes of the Rule are the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Adjoining Countries (as defined in the Rule). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As further described in this Report, the Company has determined that certain of its operations manufacture or contract to manufacture products that may
contain Conflict Minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of such products. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Description of the Company&#146;s Products Covered
by this Report </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">L.B. Foster Company is a leading manufacturer, fabricator, and distributor of products and services for the rail, construction, energy,
and utility markets. For rail markets, the Company provides a full line of new and used rail, trackwork, and accessories to railroads, mines, and industry. The Company also designs and produces concrete railroad ties, insulated rail joints, power
rail, track fasteners, coverboards, and special accessories for mass transit and other rail systems worldwide. Additionally, the Company engineers, manufactures, and assembles friction management products and railway wayside data collection and
management systems. For the construction industry, the Company sells steel sheet piling, H-bearing piling, pipe piling, and provides rental sheet piling for foundation requirements. In addition, the Company supplies precast concrete buildings,
bridge decking, bridge railing, expansion joints, and other products for highway construction and repair. For tubular markets, the Company supplies pipe coatings for natural gas pipelines and utilities. The Company also produces threaded pipe
products for industrial water well and irrigation markets. Based upon Instruction 3 to Item&nbsp;1.01 of Form SD, the Company is not reporting on products manufactured or contracted to be manufactured by Ball Winch, Inc., which was acquired by the
Company in November 2013 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Report relates to the Company&#146;s products (i)&nbsp;for which Conflict Minerals are necessary to the functionality or
production of that product; (ii)&nbsp;that were manufactured or contracted to be manufactured by the Company; and (iii)&nbsp;for which the manufacture was completed during calendar year 2013. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">L.B. Foster Company does not directly purchase Conflict Minerals. The Company identified the products sold by the Company, which are listed below, as possibly
containing Conflict Minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of the products. </P>

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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>The Company&#146;s Reasonable Country of Origin inquiries and Due Diligence Process </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Having determined that the Rule applies to the above-mentioned product categories, we conducted a good-faith reasonable country of origin inquiry to determine
the origin of any Conflict Minerals contained in our products. We describe the steps undertaken as part of this inquiry in the Form SD to which this exhibit is attached. The Company received responses from approximately 84% of solicited vendors
indicating that the supplies they sold to the Company did not include Conflict Minerals originating in Covered Countries. Despite our good faith efforts, our reasonable country of origin inquiries did not yield the desired number of responses from
suppliers. As a result, we concluded that we had no reason to believe that our necessary Conflict Minerals did not originate in a Covered Country. This conclusion was based solely on the lack of substantive responses to our questionnaire and
follow-up inquiries from what we considered to be a critical mass of suppliers. As discussed further below, we undertook additional reasonable country of origin inquiries and due diligence efforts in an attempt to clarify the following with respect
to the Conflict Minerals: (i)&nbsp;country of origin, (ii)&nbsp;whether the Conflict Minerals financed or benefited armed groups in those countries, and (iii)&nbsp;whether the Conflict Minerals came from recycled or scrap sources. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In exercising due diligence on the source and chain of custody of the Conflict Minerals, we conformed our due diligence efforts to the guidance provided by
the <I>Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas: Second Edition</I>, including the related supplements on gold, tin, tantalum
and tungsten (the &#147;OECD Guidance&#148;). Furthermore, we have adopted a policy relating to the Conflict Minerals (the &#147;Company Policy&#148;), which can be viewed on the Company&#146;s website at
<U>http://www.lbfoster.com/corporate/conflict_minerals.asp</U>. <I>The content of any website referred to in this Form SD is included for general information only and is not incorporated by reference herein.</I> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Our supply chain, with respect to the Covered Products is complex. We have a vast network of suppliers throughout the world and there are generally multiple
tiers between the mined Conflict Minerals and our direct suppliers. The Company does not purchase Conflict Minerals directly from mines, smelters, or refiners, and therefore must rely on its suppliers to provide information regarding the origin of
the Conflict Minerals that are included in the Covered Products. The Company has taken steps to identify the applicable mines, smelters, and refiners of Conflict Minerals in our supply chain. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Step 1: The Company established internal meetings with senior personnel and procurement representatives to educate and train employees on the Rule. We
established a Company Policy and determined the source data to be used in our evaluation. Significant outcomes from the meetings were periodically reported to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors throughout the year. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Step 2: In conjunction with the training, the Company assessed the various business lines and products to determine potential risks within each division. </P>


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develop a comprehensive design and implementation process in order to evaluate our supply chain. The team was responsible for deploying a strategy, based upon the OECD Guidance, to develop a questionnaire for vendors to complete that would enable
the Company to determine whether the supplies included Conflict Minerals. The certification was distributed to all vendors that provided inputs to our manufactured products that may contain Conflict Minerals and was tracked by the accounting group.
The Company relied upon the supplier responses; however, our due diligence procedures included an evaluation of each response for reasonableness based upon characteristics specific to the supplier. Through multiple follow-up efforts including email,
phone calls, and fax transmittals, the team received responses from approximately 84% of solicited vendors indicating that the supplies they sold to the Company did not include Conflict Minerals originating in Covered Countries. Multiple follow-up
procedures were performed to achieve a greater response level; however the Company was unable to obtain certification responses from the entire population. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Step 4: We do not typically have direct relationships with Conflict Mineral smelters and refiners and therefore do not conduct or oversee audits of these
entities within our supply chain. However, we support audits through reference to the Conflict Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI) which is led by the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and the Global eSustainability Initiative (GeSI).
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Step 5: The Company intends to report annually on its supply chain due diligence relative to Conflict Minerals from covered countries. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Based on the results of the above-described due diligence efforts, we were unable to determine whether 100% of our vendors excluded Conflict Minerals
originating in Covered Countries from products sold to the Company. Therefore, we were unable to determine, after conducting the reasonable country of origin inquiries and subsequently exercising the required due diligence, the country of origin for
the Conflict Minerals in the Covered Products. Based on our due diligence efforts, we did not find any evidence that any Covered Products containing Conflict Minerals directly or indirectly financed or benefited armed groups in the Covered
Countries. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Steps Taken to Mitigate Risk </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In 2014, we
have taken, or plan to take, the following steps to mitigate the risk that our necessary Conflict Minerals benefit armed groups. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Independent Audit Report </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No independent private sector
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