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

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.

  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    why isn’t it an electronic lock that prevents operation of the machine if it’s not locked?

    Because that would throw the liability on the facility when the system inevitably failed, or was bypassed because the $1000 lock mechanism was preventing the $10m MRI from working.

    Much easier to slap up a couple of warning signs and tell people not to be dumb.

      • piecat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        6 days ago

        Okay, say there’s an emergency with the patient being scanned. The people getting scanned are usually very sick.

        Say the patient has a heart attack, or can’t breathe, or something malfunctioned and caught on fire.

        What happens if the door malfunctions? Or the key is dropped/misplaced? Or any similar scenario occurs that delays help when seconds count?