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 family is raising money to fund the funeral of a man who died after he was sucked into an MRI machine on Long Island. Keith McAllister was helping his wife in an MRI

Keith McAllister, 61, was mortally wounded in the bizarre incident, which unfolded Wednesday afternoon inside Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, Long Island.