A man in New York got sucked into an open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine after he entered the room wearing a metal chain, and later died from his critical injuries.
The Nassau County Police Department said that on Wednesday at around 4:34 p.m. the victim, a 61-year-old man, entered an unauthorized room at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, New York, wearing a large metal chain while an MRI scan was in progress.
He got sucked into the machine, which triggered a medical episode. Police said that he was then taken to a hospital in critical condition, and that he ultimately died in the hospital on Thursday. They did not name him in their release.
The victim’s wife, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, told regional cable news network News 12 that her husband Keith McAllister entered the room to help her get up after the MRI machine scanned her knee.
“He went limp