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.

The Long Island man who was killed in a freak MRI machine accident was sporting a staggering 20-pound chain necklace adorned with a padlock at the time of the tragedy, his grieving wife said. Keith McAllister, 61, died after suffering several heart attacks following the bizarre incident at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury last Wednesday.

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.

Long Island man critically injured after entering MRI room without permission and being sucked into machine, cops say - MRI magnets are strong enough to toss a wheelchair across a room

Keith McAllister, 61, was mortally wounded in the bizarre incident, which unfolded Wednesday afternoon inside Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, Long Island.

A 61-year-old man has died after he was sucked into a MRI machine in Long Island, New York. Authorities say the man was wearing a large chain and entered a room without authorization, where he was pulled into the machine.

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