Man wearing heavy metal necklace died after being sucked into MRI machine

A 61-year-old man died after being sucked into magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by a medical center while wearing a heavy metal necklace.

The Nassau County Police Department said the unidentified person entered a room in Nasso, Long Island, New York, operating without permission.

A patient at the facility told local media that her husband died. She said she asked him to enter the room after a scan Wednesday.

Officials said the incident “caused a medical incident” and the man was taken to the hospital and he died Thursday. MRI machines use strong magnetic fields to produce detailed images.

Patients are usually asked to remove metal objects and change clothes on MRI scans or clothes near the machine.

“The male victim was wearing a large metal chain around his neck, which led to him being drawn to the machine, which led to a medical incident,” said the Nassau County Police Department, who investigated the incident.

Although police have not named the victim yet, Adrienne Jones-McAllister told local TV stations News 12 Changdao That was her husband Keith’s death.

She said in tears: “He said goodbye to me, and then his whole body became liberating.”

Ms. Jones-McAllister told the media that her knee was undergoing an MRI and asked her husband to come in and help her get up. She said he was wearing a 20-pound (9kg) chain with the lock he used for weight training.

“At that moment, the machine turned him around and pulled him in and he hit MRI.”

Ms. Jones McAllister said the technician tried to pull her husband away from the machine.

“I mean, ‘Can you turn off the machine?” she told the media. “Call 911. Do something. Close this damn thing!'”

The BBC has contacted Nassau Public MRI for comment.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, MRI machines have magnetic fields that attract magnetic objects of all sizes – keys, cell phones and even oxygen tanks – “If these objects become projectiles, they can damage the scanner or get injured to patients or medical professionals.”

In 2001, a six-year-old boy died of a skull fracture at a medical center in New York City and underwent an MRI test, and his powerful magnetism pushed the oxygen tank into the room.