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.

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.

Keith McAllister was caught in an MRI machine at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, N.Y. on July 16, and died of his injuries the following day. In an emotional interview, his wife recalled him going 'limp' in her arms and watching the machine 'snatch him.

“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 ...

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