A window cleaner severely injured when he was struck by 33,000-volts is now able to "shuffle" around the house - as his family call for a change in the law."

Dad-of-three Jason Knight, 35, suffered a near-death incident and lost his left forearm and several toes.

Electricity jumped about 2 meters (6.6ft) from a power cable to his cleaning pole.

Jason, of Westbury, Wiltshire, was on the final window of a regular customer's house when he was electrocuted on April 6.

His loved ones are now demanding for a change of law to stop this from happening to someone else.

John is campaigning for water-fed poles to be insulated to a British standard to protect other professionals from electrocution.

John said: "Jason is very lucky - he should have been dead. But because he is alive we can campaign. "

"Jason is the first survivor of this type of incident and he is alive for a reason - let's not waste that."

His dad remembers the day of the incident as it happened yesterday.

John said: "We got a message saying he had an accident at work. We got the message that he needed help and had been badly injured."

"We didn't know the severity of the accident."

"When I arrived at the scene we saw the air ambulance and I thought there was something wrong. "

"The moment they said he was in a bad way I became very upset imagining all sorts of things."

"It was an harrowing view - Jason was on an air ambulance trolley, they were putting needles all over him and his hand and arm were black. It was like someone had taken it off a barbecue. "

"And then they said he had been electrocuted."

"Everyone's hearts sank. He then was on his way to Southmead - and I headed there with my wife."

Before they took him to the operation theatre was able to Jason spoke to his dad.

John said: "He was very calm and looked at me and said dad 'I don't understand' and I said 'you are going to be okay'."

"He just looked at me and said ‘How do we stop this from happening to someone else' - he was not thinking about himself."

When Jason woke up from the coma on the fourth day after the incident his family filled him with what had happened.

John said: "We spoke with him and he seemed ok. He was obviously in shock with his arm. But we got solace from it because he was alive."

His dad remembers 'crying his eyes out' as he was in intensive care and had burns 'all over his body'.

"It was a very stressful time," he explained. "He was urinating black and there were machines everywhere."

Doctors told Jason's family that he would most likely die - as the parts of his body were dying after the electrocution.

John added: "As the days progressed we would go home and think if it would be the last time seeing him. It was very very hard - I had to be brave."

"They were operating him every two days and then they would do more scans and tests."

"He continued having surgery removed, including bones, toes, but then his leg tissues of both legs died and they had to remove it."

"Electrocution is a burn and it has all of these complications."

However, after spending three and half months in hospital they managed to bring him home as the life in the hospital was affecting Jason mentally.

His family managed to get him a wheelchair and a stair wheel to help him moving around the house.

"He was going so crazy and needed to see his children," said John. ''Week after week he had gone better. "

"It is a very painful journey and it is going to take time to heal."

Jason is now beginning to "shuffle" around the house with a stick and he can also stand in the kitchen for a few seconds."

"The next battle is finding something he can do. He has lost his business due to this," added John."

John is now campaigning for water-fed poles to be insulated to a British standard to protect other professionals from electrocution.

He explained that the reason that his son survived was because the section he was holding to operate the pole was not insulated to a 8020 British standard.

John said: "He touched an un-insulated section and earthed himself, causing the electrical current to jump."

If the bottom section had been uninsulated it would have gone for his left arm and go directly to his heart.

John added that it is "cheaper" to make the first two sections insulated than not."

He said: "The industry seemed to be only concerned with education and putting little red stickers. It is a small red sticker and that's them off the hook. "

"The only way we can allow change to happen is putting pressure on the manufacturer and tell them we want this poles to have a certified British Standard. "

"We need to raise awareness because people are dying every year in this country and in America."

"They are there to electrocute the next person."

"No one has taken responsibility and there is no criminal charges to pursue. "

"This doesn't mean there isn't a civil case to bring for."

They were also invited to share Jason's story at the America Window Cleaning Federation convention.

Craig Mawlam owner of Ionic Systems, explained that in the UK there are between four and eight electrocutions recorded from overhead power lines every year.

He said: "In 2022 there were ten strike incidents, two of these involving window Cleaners, representing a 10% increase and a new group within the statistics. "

"Strikes are usually fatal - Jason is a rare survivor and as such he is an important voice in the fight to improve safety for all in the outdoor cleaning sector."

In 2017 his company adopted the 2011 British Standard 8020 specification for insulating hand tools for work on or near conductor rail systems operating at voltages up to 1000 V a.c. or 1500 V d.c.

He said: "It is a good standard and most applicable to this product group, every pole we produce conforms to it and bears the approved BS 8020 2011 logo, in turn this heightens awareness. "

"However, Jason's terrible accident highlights a need for improvement within the standard as well as the need for the standard to be mandated for all waterfed pole suppliers. "

"By including both the handle section and the next section of telescoping pole above the handle, the safe working distance from any unnoticed powerline is increased from 2 to 4 meters. As a pole is raised or lowered the safe distance is increased."

"My advice to all concerned window cleaners is to "look up and look out" for overhead powerlines and if in any doubt decline the work, there is no gentle tingle to warn you're getting too close! "

"Secondly put some pressure on their preferred supplier to take their safety more seriously than simply applying a waring sign and passing the sole responsibility for safety on to them."

A HSE spokesperson said: "We carried out an investigation into this incident and found regulations had not been breached."

To make a donation visit Jason's GoFundMe page here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/jasons-rehabilitation