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I was splitting kindling wood down further to very small thickness for my tiny woodstove. It was hard to balance them on end... steadied a bit of wood I was splitting with my left hand, just so I could engage the knife to then "baton" it through without a mallet once hand removed. I'd done this carefully a few times but this particular piece split through immediately with very little force = knife into finger quite deep & smaller cut to thumb.
(I changed back to resting my left palm over the knife instead to help it balance, accepting that sometimes the kindling will topple but ensuring my fingers should never be under the blades direction of travel.)