The Long Island man killed in a freak MRI accident stood no chance against the machine’s magnetic field that pulled him in with enough force to “snap his neck,” according to an expert in the

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,

A 61-year-old man who was sucked into an MRI machine on Long Island while wearing a metal neck chain has died from his injuries, authorities revealed Friday.

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.

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

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

A 61-year-old man has died after he was sucked into a MRI machine in Long Island, New York. Authorities say the man was wearing a large chain and entered a room without authorization, where he was pulled into the machine.