secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     MSA Safety Inc (MSA)
CIK:        0000066570
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-05-31T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000066570-23-000023
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

MSA Safety elects Steve Blanco as President and COO, effective June 1
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- Blanco, previously President Americas, promoted to President and COO; Nish Vartanian remains Chairman and CEO.
- Compensation: base salary $550,000, target cash incentive $462,000 (80% of salary midpoint).
- Additional LTI award of $250,000 in time-vesting RSUs with 3-year cliff vesting.
- Under Blanco's leadership, Americas segment revenue grew >40% from 2018-2022; he oversaw acquisitions of Globe Manufacturing, Sierra Monitor, Bacharach.
- Blanco led development of MSA Business System for continuous improvement across enterprise.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66570/000006657023000023/0000066570-23-000023-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66570/000006657023000023/msa-20230531.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000066570-23-000023

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