A Long Island man, Keith McAllister, 61, died after being violently pulled into an MRI machine by the metal weight-training chain around his neck. The incident happened at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury while his wife, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, had just finished her own scan.
As she lay on the MRI table, she asked the technician to bring in her husband to help her off. “I saw him walk toward the table and then the machine just snatched him,” she told *News 12*. “He went limp in my arms.”
Despite the chain being visible—and reportedly discussed during previous visits—the technician still allowed McAllister into the room. “That was not the first time that guy had seen that chain,” Jones-McAllister said.
Her daughter, Samantha Bodden, wrote on Facebook that the technician never told McAllister to remove the chain. “He forgot to inform him… when the magnet sucked him in.”
Police confirmed McAllister entered the MRI room while a scan was in progress. “He was attached to the machine for almost an hour before they could release the chain,” Bodden added.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help cover funeral costs as the family blames the technician for this preventable tragedy.
