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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The magnet is always on, because it is, apparently, a very expensive process to refill the superconducting magnets with liquid helium and the recalibrate the machine. I relayed a story a while back in a thread regarding a similar MRI accident. A night-shiftX-ray tech at a hospital I used to practice at thought he would be industrious and clean up the department during a lull in activity. When he tried to vacuum the MRI room, he destroyed the scanner to the tune of around $ 1 million. Needless to say, he was gone the next day.
He was told.
They really should include pictures of people like him, who choose to disregard warnings.
Im going for an MRI and I have a steel plate in my head. I am not telling them. Im sure I’ll be fine.
People who have seem Draginvall z. That’s who.
Black women want their husbands. They treat marriage very seriously.
I’ve had several. They’re pretty thorough
Crazy story.
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Especially since every hospital requires all metal to be removed before entering the MRI room.
I guess I cannot enter an MRI since I have a titanium plate screwed into my neck. Would probably rip my neck apart.
I just thought it odd she asked her husband for assistance....my wife’s had plenty of MRIs and never once needed me in the room.
This is one of the most eyebrow raising angles to the story.
[...steel plate in my head...]
Just make sure they load you headfirst instead of feet first so you can just wear a hat afterwards.
Guy paid so much for what he thought was gold bling he wasn’t going to take it off.
I think you would be ok around a MRI rig Dan. Titanium is non-ferromagnetic. My wife had a MRI assisted biopsy in the machine. They used a titanium needle.
You should be OK with titanium. It is not magnetic.
https://readmymri.com/blog/what-type-of-metal-is-mri-safe
It takes a long time to ramp up the magnetic (the M in MRI) field and calibrate everything. In the early days of MRI Philips installed one on an upper floor of Yale hospital. It was in less than a month when an orderly wheeled an oxygen tank into the exam room. The tank was launched like a missile through the tunnel with no damage. However it’s return trip back into machine was not so graceful. Useless Fact: It was originally called Nuclear Magnetic Radiography but the images were so revolutionary and revealing the average Family Physician could read the image and they thought it meant No More Radiologists. Plus there is no radiation involved so they took the “Nuclear” out of the name.
My wife has 4 titanium plates and 16 titanium screws in her skull. No MRI issues.
Nothing about this makes sense....
I just think she got scared in that mri and lost it. They’re scary.
Apparently not gold.
I have a ton of shrapnel in my body from Iraq. By the grace of God, it’s all aluminum/copper/titanium and probably depleted uranium.
Sad. I have questions about the story too. As others said, why was she asking for him to come in and help her up?
Well she was hurt from whatever. That’s why she was there.
And MRI I’ve been in are super low and awkward to sit up in.
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