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 61-year-old Long Island man is in critical condition after being pulled into an active MRI machine by his metal necklace at a Westbury imaging center

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 ...

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