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.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      I wouldn’t go into an MRI room if I wasn’t a patient naked in just a gown. Fuck that.

      Even something like a belt buckle could get yanked.