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’s wife was by his side when he was fatally injured in a freak MRI accident. In an emotional new interview with News 12 Long Island, Adrienne Jones-McAllister tearfully recalled the moment she “saw the machine snatch him” and “pull him" in by a necklace he was wearing.

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.