Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2018

Payables And Accruals [Abstract]

Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities

13. Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):

	AS OF SEPTEMBER 30,
	2018		2017
Product warranty	$	688	$	508
Compensated absences		1,329		1,287
Legal and professional fees		434		194
Payroll		960		682
Property and sales taxes		1,977		2,383
Medical claims		450		550
Other		988		734
	$	6,826	$	6,338

The Company is self-insured for certain losses related to employee medical claims.  The Company has purchased stop-loss coverage for individual claims in excess of $175,000 per claimant per year in order to limit its exposure to any significant levels of employee medical claims.  Self-insured losses are accrued based on the Company’s historical experience and on estimates of aggregate liability for uninsured claims incurred using certain actuarial assumptions followed in the insurance industry.