Keith McAllister suffered three heart attacks and died in an MRI accident at Nassau Open MRI after allegedly being invited into the room while wearing a metal chain.

Officers were urgently called to the MRI room after the 61-year-old "entered an unauthorised Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) room while the scan was in progress"

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Keith McAllister was wearing a large metal chain which caused the powerful MRI magnet to pull him into the machine.

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A man is critically injured after a metal necklace pulled him into an MRI machine at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury; police say it appears to be an accident.

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“When it is appropriate for a patient to wear a face mask during an MRI exam, such as during the Covid-19 public health emergency, ensure the face mask contains no metal,” the agency advised.

Unfortunately, according to the New York Post, a man in Long Island, New York, who was wearing a large chain necklace with a padlock on it accidentally walked into an MRI room while the machine was in operation. The powerful magnetic field that the MRI machine generates grabbed the man by the chain and pulled him into the machine - killing him.

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