Window cleaner loses arm after overhead cable incident

A UK window cleaner has had an arm amputated after his carbon fibre pole moved too close to an overhead cable.Jason Knight, 34, was cleaning the windows of a private house when a 33,000-volt current sent him flying seven feet across the customer's back garden.The self-employed window cleaner from Westbury, Wiltshire, was airlifted to hospital where a scan revealed that the shock had narrowly missed his heart. Doctors were forced to amputate his left arm and five of his toes which had been severe