Although he had previously suffered several back injuries, the last in 1958, he had no back problems during the intervening 11 years. The board found that claimant's disability "was causally related solely" to such accidental injury. The board was under no compulsion to apportion the award among the prior back injuries and the instant one (Matter of Engle v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.,
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