Subsequent Events	9 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2019
Subsequent Events [Abstract]
Subsequent Events	NOTE Q – Subsequent Events On March 20, 2019, the Board of Directors of Worthington Industries, Inc. authorized the repurchase of up to an additional 6,600,000 of the Company’s common shares, increasing the total number of shares available for repurchase to 10,000,000.

The entire disclosure for significant events or transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date through the date the financial statements were issued or the date the financial statements were available to be issued. Examples include: the sale of a capital stock issue, purchase of a business, settlement of litigation, catastrophic loss, significant foreign exchange rate changes, loans to insiders or affiliates, and transactions not in the ordinary course of business.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 855
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2122774

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