Item 3. Legal Proceedings

The Company is subject to various legal proceedings arising in the normal course of its business. These proceedings include claims for damages arising out of use of the Company’s products, intellectual property, workers’ compensation and environmental matters. The Company is self-insured up to specified limits for certain types of claims, including product liability and workers’ compensation, and is fully self-insured for certain other types of claims, including environmental and intellectual property matters. The Company recognizes a liability for any contingency that in management’s judgment is probable of occurrence and can be reasonably estimated. We continually reassess the likelihood of adverse judgments and outcomes in these matters, as well as estimated ranges of possible losses based upon an analysis of each matter which includes

consideration of outside legal counsel and, if applicable, other experts. Information required by this item is incorporated herein by reference to the section captioned “Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, Note 14 — Commitments and Contingencies” of this Form 10-K.