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    Home - New York - Man who died after being pulled into MRI machine was wearing 9kg weight-training chain, wife reveals

    Man who died after being pulled into MRI machine was wearing 9kg weight-training chain, wife reveals

    Man who died after being pulled into MRI machine was wearing 9kg weight-training chain, wife reveals

    Man who died after being pulled into MRI machine was wearing 9kg weight-training chain, wife reveals

    • WTX News Editor
    • July 21, 2025
    • 6:25 am
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    Cliff Notes

    • Keith McAllister, 61, died after being pulled into an MRI machine at Nassau Open MRI clinic due to a 9kg weight-training chain around his neck.
    • The incident occurred while his wife was undergoing a knee scan, and she called him for assistance just before the accident.
    • Following the event, McAllister suffered multiple heart attacks and was later pronounced dead in hospital; MRI accidents, while rare, can be fatal.

    Man who died after being pulled into MRI machine was wearing 9kg weight-training chain, wife reveals | US News

    A man who died after being pulled into an MRI machine in New York was wearing a large weight-training chain around his neck, his wife has said.

    Keith McAllister, 61, entered a room at the Nassau Open MRI clinic while a scan of his wife’s knee was under way.

    The machine’s strong magnetic force drew him in by the 9kg metal chain around his neck, according to Nassau County Police.

    His wife, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, said she had called out to her husband to help her off the table.

    “I yelled out Keith’s name, [shouting] Keith, come help me up,” she said in an interview with News 12 Long Island.

    She said her husband entered the room wearing the chain, which he uses for weight training.

    It is not the first time someone has been killed by an MRI machine in New York

    “I saw the machine snatch him around and pull him into the machine,” Ms Jones-McAllister said as tears streamed down her face. “He died, he lost, he went limp in my arms.”

    Police said that the accident last Wednesday “resulted in a medical episode” and left Mr McAllister in a critical condition in hospital.

    Ms Jones-McAllister said her husband had suffered a series of heart attacks after he was freed from the MRI machine. He was later pronounced dead.

    Due to the magnetic fields, “very powerful forces” are exerted on objects made of iron, some steels, and other magnetic materials, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering says.

    It says the forces are “strong enough to fling a wheelchair across the room”.

    It is not the first time someone has been killed by an MRI machine in New York.

    In 2001, six-year-old Michael Colombini died at the Westchester Medical Centre when an oxygen tank flew into the chamber, drawn in by the MRI’s 10-ton electromagnet.

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