CONTINGENCIES	12 Months Ended
Dec. 30, 2017
CONTINGENCIES [Abstract]
CONTINGENCIES	4. Contingencies The Company is party to various legal proceedings and claims related to its normal business operations. In the opinion of management, the Company has substantial and meritorious defenses for these claims and proceedings in which it is a defendant, and believes these matters will ultimately be resolved without a material adverse effect on the consolidated financial position, results of operations or liquidity of the Company. The aggregate provision for losses related to contingencies arising in the ordinary course of business was not material to operating results for any year presented. During 2010, the Company was contacted by the State of Illinois regarding potential ground contamination at its plant in Wheeling, Illinois. The Company entered into a voluntary remediation program in Illinois and has engaged an environmental clean-up company to perform testing and develop a remediation plan. Since 2010, the environmental company has completed a number of tests and the design of a final remediation system is currently being reviewed and is expected to be approved in the first quarter of 2018. The total estimated cost for the proposed remediation system is anticipated to be approximately $50,000. During 2016, the Company created a plan to remediate a landfill of spent foundry sand maintained at the Company's Metal Casting facility in Syracuse, New York. This plan was presented to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (the "DEC") for approval in the first quarter of 2018. The Company is in final negotiations with the DEC, and based on estimates provided by the Company's environmental engineers, the cost to remediate and monitor the landfill was $380,000 which the Company expensed in the second and third quarters of 2017. There are no other legal proceedings, other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the Company's business, to which either the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any of property of the Company or any subsidiary is the subject. Approximately 31% of the total workforce is subject to negotiated union contracts, and approximately 9% of the total workforce is covered by such agreements that expire during 2018.

4. Contingencies

The Company is party to various legal proceedings and claims related to its normal business operations. In the opinion of management, the Company has substantial and meritorious defenses for these claims and proceedings in which it is a defendant, and believes these matters will ultimately be resolved without a material adverse effect on the consolidated financial position,

results of operations or liquidity of the Company. The aggregate provision for losses related to contingencies arising in the ordinary course of business was not material to operating results for any year presented.

During 2010, the Company was contacted by the State of Illinois regarding potential ground contamination at its plant in Wheeling, Illinois. The Company entered into a voluntary remediation program in Illinois and has engaged an environmental clean-up company to perform testing and develop a remediation plan. Since 2010, the environmental company has completed a number of tests and the design of a final remediation system is currently being reviewed and is expected to be approved in the first quarter of 2018. The total estimated cost for the proposed remediation system is anticipated to be approximately $50,000.

During 2016, the Company created a plan to remediate a landfill of spent foundry sand maintained at the Company's Metal Casting facility in Syracuse, New York. This plan was presented to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (the "DEC") for approval in the first quarter of 2018. The Company is in final negotiations with the DEC, and based on estimates provided by the Company's environmental engineers, the cost to remediate and monitor the landfill was $380,000 which the Company expensed in the second and third quarters of 2017.

There are no other legal proceedings, other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the Company's business, to which either the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any of property of the Company or any subsidiary is the subject.

Approximately 31% of the total workforce is subject to negotiated union contracts, and approximately 9% of the total workforce is covered by such agreements that expire during 2018.