Sucked into an MRI machine because of a 20-pound necklace he was wearing .
This is how a 61-year-old man died on Long Island, in the United States .
According to the police reconstruction and reported by the BBC, the man entered a room at the Nassau Open MRI in Westbury without having been authorised by doctors while the machine was still on following an MRI scan of his knee carried out by his wife , Adrienne Jones-McAllister.
“I asked him to help me, he entered the room and in an instant the machine sucked him in and dragged him inside,” the woman said, explaining that the heavy chain around his neck was used by her husband for training.
Patients are asked to remove all metal objects they are wearing and to change their clothes before undergoing the MRI scan or even simply approaching the machine .
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, MRI machines have magnetic fields that can attract objects of all sizes: keys, cell phones, and even oxygen tanks . In 2001, a six-year-old boy died of a skull fracture at a New York medical center during an MRI scan after the machine attracted an oxygen tank to him.
(Unioneonline/L)
