The family of a Long Island man who was killed when he was violently yanked into an MRI machine by a 20-pound chain around his neck hired an attorney in a likely precursor to a lawsuit. Keith McAllister,

A 61-year-old man died after being pulled into an active MRI machine while wearing a heavy metal chain at a clinic in New York.

A man who was sucked into an MRI machine at a Long Island medical office because he was wearing a metal chain as a scan was in progress has died from his injuries, according to police.