MRI Machine Kills New York Man In Freak Accident

While most people think of medical centers and hospitals as safe places that specialize in keeping us healthy and saving our lives, they actually can be quite dangerous places to be.

Not only are they a place where people of all sorts of backgrounds congregate during potentially stressful situations, but there are also all sorts of utensils and machines that can be lethal if they are not used properly and according to tight rules and regulations.

That was all too clear over the last few days when a man caught the surprise of his life and was tragically killed when he was in a part of a New York hospital that he shouldn't have been.

New York Man Killed After Being Pulled Into MRI Machine

If you've had any sort of medical imaging done, like a CT Scan, X-Ray, or MRI, you know there are all sorts of warnings they give you before the scan and all sorts of protective measures that staff take to keep you and them safe.

An MRI Machine (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), for example, creates a very strong magnetic field and radio waves to move the atoms in a person's body to create an image using a computer. Before going into the MRI machine, staff will ask you a series of questions about any objects in your body - metals and polymers that may be impacted by a super powerful magnet blasting your body. In addition to that, when an MRI machine is in use, everyone else around the machine is in a separate room because of how powerful the magnetic fields are, which can be very dangerous.

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.

61-year-old Keith McAllister, who walked into an MRI room at Nassau Open MRI to help his wife get off the exam table after she had an exam, it appears the machine was still on when he walked into the room and the machine pulled him across the room. Staff tried to pry him off the machine, but it wasn't enough.

Long Island News12 reports that the man died of a heart attack that was induced by the machine.