A 61-year-old man who suffered critical injuries after being pulled into an MRI machine while wearing a metal chain has died, police said Friday.

The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon at a medical building in Westbury, New York, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

Officers responded to Nassau Open MRI following a 911 call and were informed that the man “entered an unauthorized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) room while the scan was in progress,” the police department said in a statement.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Yeah, I had one mri and they stressed knowing if there was any metal but they didn’t like, pat me down or anything. I even told them about my filings and root canals and they asked when I got them then said they were fine (unlikely to interact at all, probably ceramic based)