The Long Island man killed in a freak MRI accident while wearing a massive, 20-pound chain was led into the machine room by a forgetful technician and wound up attached to the machine for an hour ...

In July 2025, social media posts claimed a 61-year-old man died after being pulled into an MRI machine while wearing a metal chain. The man was not a patient but walked into the MRI room while a scan ...

The family of a man who died after being sucked into an MRI machine by a large metallic chain around his neck has spoken out. Keith McAllister, 61, was "tragically killed" on July 16 when he went to ...

*A routine knee scan at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, Long Island, turned fatal when Keith McAllister, 61, was pulled into the MRI machine by the force of its magnetic field. As The Independent reports ...

The 61-year-old man was wearing a “large metallic chain” around his neck when he went into a room on July 16 at the Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, New York, The New York Times reported. He was ...

WESTBURY, N.Y. (AP) — A man who was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large weight-training chain around his neck has died, according to police and his ...