{"id":11591,"date":"2025-07-20T23:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11591\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T23:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:31:07","slug":"man-wearing-heavy-metallic-necklace-dies-after-being-sucked-into-mri-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11591\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wearing heavy metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Officials say the incident “resulted in a medical episode” and the man was taken to the hospital, where he died on Thursday. MRI machines use a strong magnetic field to produce detailed images.<\/p>\n

Patients are typically asked to remove metal items and change out of their clothes before undergoing MRI scans or going near the machine. <\/p>\n

“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. <\/p>\n

Though police have not named the victim, Adrienne Jones-McAllister told local television station News 12 Long Island<\/a> that it was her husband, Keith, who died. <\/p>\n

“He waved goodbye to me and then his whole body went limp,” she said tearfully. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“At that instant, the machine switched him around, pulled him in, and he hit the MRI,” she said.<\/p>\n

Ms Jones-McAllister said the technician had tried to pull her husband away from the machine.<\/p>\n

“I’m saying, ‘Could you turn off the machine?” she told the outlet. “Call 911. Do something. Turn this damn thing off!'”<\/p>\n

The BBC has contacted Nassau Open MRI for comment. <\/p>\n

According to the US Food and Drug Administration, MRI machines have magnetic fields that will attract magnetic objects of all sizes – keys, mobile phones and even oxygen tanks – which “may cause damage to the scanner or injury to the patient or medical professionals if those objects become projectiles”. <\/p>\n

In 2001, a six-year-old boy died of a fractured skull at a New York City medical centre while undergoing an MRI exam after its powerful magnetic force propelled an oxygen tank across the room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 61-year-old man has died after he was sucked into a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-11591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}