diff --git a/tools/stress/src/org/apache/cassandra/stress/StressMetrics.java b/tools/stress/src/org/apache/cassandra/stress/StressMetrics.java
index 991edf99a8..0190ed8fb2 100644
--- a/tools/stress/src/org/apache/cassandra/stress/StressMetrics.java
+++ b/tools/stress/src/org/apache/cassandra/stress/StressMetrics.java
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ public class StressMetrics
     public static final String HEADFORMAT = "%-10s%10s,%8s,%8s,%8s,%8s,%8s,%8s,%8s,%8s,%8s,%7s,%9s,%7s,%7s,%8s,%8s,%8s,%8s";
     public static final String ROWFORMAT =  "%-10s%10d,%8.0f,%8.0f,%8.0f,%8.1f,%8.1f,%8.1f,%8.1f,%8.1f,%8.1f,%7.1f,%9.5f,%7d,%7.0f,%8.0f,%8.0f,%8.0f,%8.0f";
     public static final String[] HEADMETRICS = new String[]{"type", "total ops","op/s","pk/s","row/s","mean","med",".95",".99",".999","max","time","stderr", "errors", "gc: #", "max ms", "sum ms", "sdv ms", "mb"};
-    public static final String HEAD = String.format(HEADFORMAT, HEADMETRICS);
+    public static final String HEAD = String.format(HEADFORMAT, (Object[]) HEADMETRICS);
 
     private static void printHeader(String prefix, PrintStream output)
     {