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 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 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, a Long Island man, died after being pulled into an MRI machine while helping his wife during a scan.

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 pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large chain necklace.

“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 ...