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.

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.

“They had seen the chain before,” his wife, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, said in an interview with News 12 Long Island. “In that instant, the machine switched him around, pulled him in, and he hit the MRI.” She described the traumatic moment she and ...

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.