A Connecticut man is dead after a suspected accident involving a log splitter at a home in New York on Wednesday. Authorities responded to a home in South Salem in Westchester County around 6:30 p.m.

An 18-year-old died after being hit by a log splitter, New York officials said. On July 16, the man, later identified as Brandon Gmelin, of Ridgefield, Connecticut, was trying to move a log splitter ...