A 61-year-old man who was sucked into an MRI machine on Long Island while wearing a metal neck chain has died from his injuries, authorities revealed Friday.
The freak accident happened Wednesday at Nassau County Open MRI in Westbury when the man was pulled into the magnetic resonance imaging machine by his “large metal chain,” Nassau County cops said in a release.
The unidentified victim immediately suffered a serious medical episode and was pronounced dead at a North Shore University Hospital on Thursday, police said.
Officials said the man was not a patient but was accompanying someone else who was to undergo a medical scan, ABC reported.
Witnesses told CBS the man defied orders to stay out of the MRI room because his relative was screaming in pain.