A tree surgeon said he thought he “was going to die” when he suffered a powerful electric shock from an overhead line while clearing hedges in Wiltshire. Joshua Pocknell was working just after midnight on the A3102 near Royal Wootton Bassett when the mobile lighting tower he was pushing touched an 11,000 volt overhead powerline. The 26-year-old was seriously injured and taken to hospital, where he spent the next five weeks, workplace watchdog the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said. “My whole body locked and I felt hot and cramping,” Mr Pocknell said of the shock. “I could hear the electricity in my head and thought I was going to die. “I hit the floor and passed out, still cramping. “I later discovered a hole had burnt through my arm and hip all the way to the bone.” More than two years after the incident on January 19 2024, the tree surgeon said he still experiences “considerable pain”.…