The man had walked into the room where the machine was in use
A man was pulled into an MRI machine after he walked into the room wearing a large chain necklace, police said. The man, 61, had entered an MRI room while a scan was underway Wednesday afternoon at Nassau Open MRI, New York.
The machine’s strong magnetic force drew him in by his metallic necklace, according to the Nassau County Police Department. Police said the incident “resulted in a medical episode” that left the man hospitalised in a critical condition.
Authorities did not release his name and did not have an update on the man’s condition.Nassau Open MRI on Long Island declined to comment.
MRI machines employ a strong magnetic field that “exerts very powerful forces on objects of iron, some steels, and other magnetizable objects,” according to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, which says the units are “strong enough to fling a wheelchair across the room.”