A 61-year-old man died after being pulled into an active MRI machine while wearing a heavy metal chain at a clinic in New York.

Keith McAllister, a Long Island man, died after being pulled into an MRI machine while helping his wife during a scan.

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.

Adrienne Jones-McAllister told how her husband "went limp" in her arms after being sucked into an MRI machine.

The victim wore "a large metallic chain around his neck, causing him to be drawn into the machine," police said.

The Long Island man who was killed in a freak MRI machine accident was sporting a staggering 20-pound chain necklace adorned with a padlock at the time of the tragedy, his grieving wife said. Keith McAllister, 61, died after suffering several heart attacks following the bizarre incident at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury last Wednesday.

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