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Long Island family alleges MRI technician invited Keith McAllister into room without metal warnings, leading to fatal accident when his chain attracted to magnetic field.
The man was wearing a large metal necklace when he entered a room where the machine, which uses a powerful magnetic field to create images, was operating.
A 61-year-old man died after being pulled into an MRI machine by its magnetic field at Nassau Open MRI in Long Island. Authorities are investigating the incident.
A man who was sucked into an MRI machine at a Long Island medical office because he was wearing a metal chain as a scan was in progress has died from his injuries, according to police.
A man in Long Island, N.Y., is dead after a metal chain he was wearing pulled him toward an MRI machine at a private clinic, police confirmed.
A man is in critical condition after being sucked into an MRI machine when he walked into a room where a scan was in progress while wearing a metal chain, authorities say.
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. (News 12 Long Island) - A man died after being sucked into an MRI machine, and his wife is talking about the horrifying incident. “I saw the machine snatch him around and pull him into the machine. He lost, he went limp in my arms,” Adrienne Jones-McCallister said.