The issue is as to the sufficiency of the evidence to establish an industrial accident. The board found that claimant was "required to exert himself in pushing a loaded cart containing 300 lbs. of electrical equipment to the extent that he sustained accidental injuries in the nature of an exacerbation of back pain radiating to both posterior thighs and a herniated lumbar disc with atrophy of the right thigh and leg". Claimant testified: "I was pushing this cart down the aisle...
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