Posted on 07/20/2025 1:02:06 AM PDT by NautiNurse
WESTBURY, N.Y. -- A man who was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large chain necklace has died, according to police and his wife, who told a local television outlet that he waved goodbye before his body went limp.
The man, 61, had entered an MRI room while a scan was underway Wednesday afternoon at Nassau Open MRI. The machine’s strong magnetic force drew him in by his metallic necklace, according to a release from the Nassau County Police Department.
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Adrienne Jones-McAllister told News 12 Long Island in a recorded interview that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee when she asked the technician to get her husband, Keith McAllister, to help her get off the table.
When he got close to her, she said, “at that instant, the machine switched him around, pulled him in and he hit the MRI.”
“I said: 'Could you turn off the machine, call 911, do something, Turn this damn thing off!’” she recalled, as tears ran down her face. “He went limp in my arms.”
She told News 12 that the technician summoned into the room her husband, who was wearing a 20-pound chain that he uses for weight training, an object they'd had a casual conversation about during a previous visit.
“He waved goodbye to me and then his whole body went limp,” Jones-McAllister told the TV outlet.
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Non invasive? Yes. But your tissues are being subjected to a “force” with which they are unfamiliar...at least at that intensity.
“Non invasive? Yes. But your tissues are being subjected to a “force” with which they are unfamiliar...at least at that intensity.”
I have had four. No harm.
I had bilateral knee replacement so both knees are titanium. Had a recent MRI with no problems. The tech said they’ve never had issues with titanium implants. Interestingly she told me that the magnet is always ON so the no ferrous metals in th lab always applies even when no patient is on the tray.
One of the medical shows, maybe ER or The Pitt, had two interns wheel a patient into the MRI room with the expected result. The attending asked, “didn’t you change gurneys???” So there must be a non-magnetic gurney available for non-ambulatory patients.
I wish there was a photo of the chain.
If he had it around his neck and the machine snatched him up and latched on to him, I’ll venture a guess some kind of restriction of his breathing to include his throat or chest being squeezed by the attraction between the machine and the necklace.
I am not a medical examiner .
Yes there are mri safe gurneys , wheelchairs too. The room I had my mri in had a mri safe wheelchair.
It was her procedure/event. Its her responsibility to know whatis permitted or not. She most likely knew what her husband was wearing. She either has an issue withher ability to think/reason or just didn’t care to.
He was not getting the MRI and may not have been told to remove all metal. Larger part of responsibility is the wife and techs. Especially if chains visible they should have told him donot enter. Doesnt seem he forced his way in. He was called in by wife and let in by tech.
With a dearth of details available, could be strangulation, fractured neck, closed head injury, or a combination of injuries.
Hemochromatosis, the body stores too much iron.
Today’s winner of the Darwin award!
Oh my. Oops, indeed🤯
Tyrus (from the Gutfeld show) is too smart for that. He should issue an appropriate warning to fools on his next appearance.
Stretchers, wheelchairs, and gurneys used for transport into the MRI suite are MRI-safe—made of non-ferromagnetic materials like carbon fiber, titanium, or specialized plastics. Standard hospital wheelchairs or stretchers—full of steel or iron—stop well short of the MRI zone.
“ will induce enough current to be dangerous in anything conductive.”
Colorful tattoos made with metallic ink will heat up and cause burns.
I got a bit of rust in my eye from a lawn mower muffler when I was about 13 years old. The eye doc removed it.
In the ensuing 60 years, I’ve had two or three neck/head MRIs and told them about that rust speck and its removal, but not once did they examine my eye to verify removal.
I don’t know this situation but whenever I’ve been to have an MRI there’s big red and yellow signs before you get near the room and striped tape on the floor and around the doors. And there’s more than one set of doors you must pass through. There’s also lights outside showing the machine has power.
How much would you notice when lugging a 20lb weight around your neck?
Had the chain been real gold instead of gilded steel bling, he’d still be alive.
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