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 ...

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 ...

MIDDLEFIELD — Arborist Allan Poole is a determined, resilient and positive man. Still, his grievous accident with a wood splitter two months ago tested both his and his wife Nancy Winship-Poole’s ...