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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“”There are no copy editors now.””
That’s for sure!
I wonder if it will pull a metal cap of of a tooth?
birthday suits for MRIs
“What about those with metal rods attached surgically for broke or deteriorated bones?”
You’ve never had an mri.
They don’t go in
Anyone who has a suspected stroke - if they have a pacemaker- they can’t go in until they find out there’s no metal in the pacemaker
The M in MRI is magnet
This guy barged in. Prob high or something
“”(MRI) room while the scan was in progress,””
Wouldn’t that mean there was already a patient on the MRI table if the scan was in progress? HOW would anyone else get near it?
The operator is off to the side in another room as I recall from having one years ago. Not paying attention?
Is the MRI’s middle name “Wayne”?
I remember I had to take my earrings off when I had an MRI.
Long before MRI there was NMR. I used one daily to analyze chemical samples. Every once in a great while, someone would forget to remove keys from their pockets. The keys would fly out of their pocket and pierce the outer core of the magnet, releasing gallons of liquid nitrogen and helium, effectively displacing all oxygen in the room, causing suffocation.
So you’re no doubt also know about magnetic induction and eddy currents, which will not be as traumatic as ferromagnetic materials but pose a danger from heating in the strong RF fields that are essential to how MRI works.
That’s why they say “no metallic objects” and don’t leave it to the patient to decide what is safe. There are MRI safe materials but the operator must be aware of implants, pacemakers, etc.
You didn’t read the article close enough. He wasn’t getting an MRI. He walked in to a room where there was an MRI in progress as result of wearing some type of metal chain around his neck. He probably ended up pinned to the MRI machine and was being strangled.
obviously, the room’s fault.
First thing I noticed. Today’s Journalists are almost illiterate
But their Marxist ideology is too shelf !
Academia assures it
Now move the airport metal detector where it might actually save a life !
No mri for you!
“Why should she be hysterical?”
Well most women are not like you when it comes to a hard heart.
That is incredible.
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