A tree-service laborer whose hand was mangled in a log splitter last year in Charleston, has sued the manufacturer, alleging the machine was defectively designed. Vincent Del Grosso alleges the ...

A Tauranga man is recovering in Nelson Hospital after splitting his hand open while using a mechanical wood splitter. The 33-year-old was airlifted to hospital by the Nelson Marlborough Rescue ...

Stephen Boyce's x-ray shows how the wood-splitter sliced through three bones, six finger tendons, nine finger and thumb nerves, and all the finger arteries. . Photo: ROSS GIBLIN A man whose hand was ...

According to police, a man was operating a log splitter when the machine became jammed. In an attempt to clear the jam, the machine unexpectedly activated, resulting in the severing of the man's hand ...