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Man Dies After Being Pulled Into MRI Machine — Wife Recalls Final Moments

Speaking out is the wife of the man who passed away after getting sucked into an MRI scanner.

On Wednesday, July 16, Keith McAllister was killed in a bizarre accident at Nassua Open MRI in Westbury, New York.

Adrienne Jones-McAllister, the 61-year-old’s wife, was there at the private facility when she witnessed the machine “snatch him.”

Just after 4:30 p.m. local time, police got a 911 call informing them that a guy had been trapped in one of the machines and had suffered a “medical episode.”

He had “succumbed to his injuries and was declared deceased by a hospital physician,” according to an update released two days later.

When Adrienne asked the technician to call her husband in to help her up, she was getting an MRI on her knee.

Keith was “drawn into the machine” by the strong magnetic pull of the “large metallic chain” he had been wearing around his neck.

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According to his wife, he was allowed entry into the room even though he was wearing a 20-pound chain.

Adrienne told News 12 Long Island: “In that instant, the machine switched him around, pulled him in, and he hit the MRI.”

She and the technician attempted, but were unable, to remove Keith from the machine.

“I was saying, ‘Could you turn off the machine? Call 911. Do something. Turn this damn thing off!’” she recalled.

The powerful magnets inside MRI machines can make them unsafe, even though they can be extremely helpful in saving lives or providing crucial diagnoses.

Its force is “strong enough to fling a wheelchair across the room,” according to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

Patients in the UK are advised by the NHS to take off any metal items they may have on their bodies, including hearing aids, watches, and body piercings.

Adrienne stated that the couple had previously visited the facility, and it appeared that this was the first time the staff member had seen the man’s chain, which he used for weight training.

She alleged: “They had a conversation about it before, ‘Oh that’s a big chain’.”

Adrienne has been struggling since her husband’s death and is still attempting to “wrap her head around the thing” despite having loved him “so much.”

“He waved goodbye to me, and his whole body went limp,” she added.

The incident is being investigated by the Nassau County Police Department.

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