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From: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2n39dvp0po
A 61-year-old man has died after he was sucked into a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine at a medical centre while he was wearing a heavy metal necklace.
The man, who has not been identified, entered a room at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, on New York's Long Island, without permission as the MRI machine was running, Nassau County Police Department said.
A patient at the facility told local media her husband was the one who died. She said she had called him into the room after she had a scan on Wednesday.
The male victim was wearing a large metallic chain around his neck causing him to be drawn into the machine, which resulted in a medical episode," said Nassau County Police Department, which is investigating the incident.
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Though police have not named the victim, Adrienne Jones-McAllister told local television station News 12 Long Island that it was her husband, Keith, who died.
"He waved goodbye to me and then his whole body went limp," she said tearfully.
Ms Jones-McAllister told the outlet she was getting an MRI on her knee and asked her husband to come in to help her get up afterwards. She said he was wearing a 20lb (9kg) chain with a lock that he used for weight training.
"At that instant, the machine switched him around, pulled him in, and he hit the MRI," she said.
Yikes.
A 61-year-old man has died after he was sucked into a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine at a medical centre while he was wearing a heavy metal necklace.
The man, who has not been identified, entered a room at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, on New York's Long Island, without permission as the MRI machine was running, Nassau County Police Department said.
A patient at the facility told local media her husband was the one who died. She said she had called him into the room after she had a scan on Wednesday.
The male victim was wearing a large metallic chain around his neck causing him to be drawn into the machine, which resulted in a medical episode," said Nassau County Police Department, which is investigating the incident.
...
Though police have not named the victim, Adrienne Jones-McAllister told local television station News 12 Long Island that it was her husband, Keith, who died.
"He waved goodbye to me and then his whole body went limp," she said tearfully.
Ms Jones-McAllister told the outlet she was getting an MRI on her knee and asked her husband to come in to help her get up afterwards. She said he was wearing a 20lb (9kg) chain with a lock that he used for weight training.
"At that instant, the machine switched him around, pulled him in, and he hit the MRI," she said.
Yikes.