Posted on 07/19/2025 4:28:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A man has died after getting sucked into an MRI machine.
The accident occurred on July 16 at the Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, New York, according to a press release from the Nassau County Police Department in Long Island.
Officers responded to a 911 call at around 4:30 p.m. at the MRI center, which provides diagnostic radiology services.
"Upon arrival, officers were informed that a male, 61, entered an unauthorized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) room while the scan was in progress," the release stated.
"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."
The man was transported to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries the next day, on July 17.
The investigation is ongoing, according to the police department.
Nassau Open MRI states on its website that anything metallic should be removed prior to an MRI, including hearing aids, partial plates, dentures, jewelry and hair pins.
On a web page detailing the benefits and risks of MRIs, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notes that "the strong, static magnetic field will attract magnetic objects (from small items such as keys and cell phones, to large, heavy items such as oxygen tanks and floor buffers) and may cause damage to the scanner or injury to the patient or medical professionals if those objects become projectiles."
"Careful screening of people and objects entering the MR environment is critical to ensure nothing enters the magnet area that may become a projectile."
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Well, a lot of good that weight training did for him. 🙃
That could be a great movie for Rick Moranis, if he’s still alive.
He’d be Seymour, a mild-mannered hospital technician who’s trying to protect his man-eating MRI machine from the authorities.
The warning signs were obviously racist.
Can we say for sure that Donald Trump isn’t responsible?
His uncle invented a lot of hospital technology.
What about those with metal rods attached surgically for broke or deteriorated bones?
You make something idiot proof and they build a bigger idiot.
To those who think I am being mean, build a bridge and get over it. You know I am right.
unauthorized MRI ? Rogue MRI ? Are the MRI’s rising up ?
Those machines are huge and probably expensive too. I can’t imagine a fly by night mri shop. Chuck’s Cut Rate MRI and Tire .
I suspect the deceased was not authorized to enter the mri room.
All warning signs are racist. As are all rules, laws, cautions, and best practices.
So, no one has the wherewithal to shut down the machine? Did he get pulled into the tube and choked to death by the chain around his neck? And nobody heard it or saw it?
You are disqualified from getting a MRI.
As I am with a metal knee implant, though before that I am sure I have bits of steel/iron that have impacted my body.
While those metals don’t get sucked into the magnet like iron does, the MRI also uses changing magnetic fields to do the scan, and changing fields can induce currents in conductors - this is how an induction cooktop works. Want your necklace to fry your neck?
Usually the metal is non-ferromagnetic which means it is fine. Also there are low power and high power machines.
However if you have steel in your body a MRI is generally out.
I can’t mri because of steel in my leg. It would either pull out or heat up. I have no intention of ever finding out which might happen.
Probably snapped his neck.
It was your life you were gambling with and she was not going to have to clean it up.
I get it. It wasn't his fault for ignoring multiple warning signs. It was somebody else's fault for not being ready at all times to instantly deal with an idiot ignoring multiple warning signs.
I agree. He didn’t pay attention.
Are you dissin’ our AI jurnelists and editurs?
“”anything metallic””
Not magnetic!!
“All that glitters is not gold”.
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