Even if he was standing there holding the chain in his hands, the strongest weightlifter would not be able to prevent this kind of an accident from happening,” said Dr. Emanuel Kanal.

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 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,

It wasn’t the first New York death to result from an MRI machine. In 2001, a six-year-old child from Croton-on-Hudson was killed at the Westchester Medical Center when an oxygen tank flew into the chamber, drawn in by the MRI’s 10-ton electromagnet. In 2010, records filed in Westchester County revealed that the family settled a lawsuit for $2.9m.

A man who was sucked into an MRI machine at a Long Island medical office because he was wearing a metal chain as a scan was in progress has died from his injuries, according to police.

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

Adrienne Jones-McAllister is sharing new details about the day her husband, Keith McAllister, died after being pulled into an MRI machine at a New York medical facility. "I saw the machine snatch him around and pull him into the machine. He lost, he went limp in my arms," Adrienne told News 12 Long Island.

A man was critically injured after getting sucked into an MRI machine at a medical center on New York's Long Island, according to police.

“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 ...