A 61-year-old man who was sucked into an MRI machine on Long Island while wearing a metal neck chain has died from his injuries, authorities revealed Friday.
The freak accident happened Wednesday at Nassau County Open MRI in Westbury when the man was pulled into the magnetic resonance imaging machine by his “large metal chain,” Nassau County cops said in a release.
The freak incident occurred Wednesday at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, Long Island. Brigitte Stelzer
The 61-year-old was not authorized to be in the imaging room. Brigitte StelzerThe unidentified victim immediately suffered a serious medical episode and was pronounced dead at a North Shore University Hospital on Thursday, police said.
Officials said the man was not a patient but was accompanying someone else who was to undergo a medical scan, ABC reported.
Witnesses told CBS the man defied orders to stay out of the MRI room because his relative was screaming in pain.
The man’s cause of death was not revealed by officials, but a staff doctor at North Shore University Hospital speculated on what could have happened.
“If this was a chain that was wrapped around the neck, I could imagine any kind of strangulation injuries that could happen,” Dr. Payal Sud told CBS.
“Asphyxiation, cervical spine injuries.
An investigation is underway, but no criminality is suspected.
