WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Matt Manzari, now 31, was trimming trees at his church when a powerline sent a surge of electricity through the remote controlled bucket truck he was in
The father-of-two was standing in a steel bucket that sent 14,000 volts of electricity through his body, melting 25 per cent of his skin in the process
Electric chairs use between 2,000 and 2,200 volts - meaning that Matt's body was subjected to the equivalent of six or seven of them
His ribs were left exposed, and the electricity actually burned his chest muscles
The accident left Matt in a coma, and doctors warned his family that he would likely not wake up - noting that if he did, he would probably have brain damage