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Man dies after being pulled into MRI machine while wearing metal chain: Police (abcnews.go.com)

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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.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago

The language here is really confusing and the link to the police statement is broken for me. When they say and unauthorized MRI room do they mean he was unauthorized to enter or something about the MRI room being unauthorized, like a backroom dodgy deal sort of thing?

[-] [email protected] 51 points 6 days ago

I found a NY Times article, which starts out:

A man who entered an M.R.I. room during a scan in Westbury, N.Y., on Wednesday was pulled into the machine by his chain necklace and was hospitalized in critical condition, the authorities said.

The man, who is 61, was wearing a “large metallic chain” around his neck when he entered the room at Nassau Open MRI around 4:34 p.m., according to the Nassau County Police Department, on Long Island. The man, whom the police did not name, did not have authorization to enter the room, the authorities said.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

61, was wearing a “large metallic chain” around his neck

Was this guy a dog? Gangster?

How does one simply enter an MRI room so easily while it's running?

Such a bizarre story.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

If the door isn't locked... well, yeah you can just enter.

It'll stop the scan. But that's about it. The magnet never turns off unless you hit the quench button, which will cause irriversable damage. Only used in matters of life and death.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I've had a few, but I don't recall it ever being easy to just walk in. Considering how dangerous they can be, it seems like someone messed up.

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