Man Dies After Being Sucked Into Long Island Mri Machine

A 61-year-old man successful New York has died aft he was sucked into a magnetic resonance imaging instrumentality this week, Nassau County Police said Friday.

The man was wearing a ample metallic concatenation and entered a room without authorization arsenic nan MRI machine, which uses a beardown magnetic field, was moving astatine a aesculapian agency successful Westbury connected Wednesday afternoon, constabulary said.

The metallic necklace caused him “to beryllium drawn into nan instrumentality which resulted successful a aesculapian episode,” constabulary said astir nan incident that occurred astir 4:30 p.m.

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He was pronounced dormant from his injuries astatine 2:36 p.m. Thursday astatine a hospital, constabulary said successful Friday’s update.

Safety rules surrounding MRI machines require that group bring thing metallic into a nan process room. Patients are typically required to alteration retired of apparel earlier entering and screened astir immoderate implants aliases metallic successful their bodies.

"Careful screening of group and objects entering nan MR situation is captious to guarantee thing enters nan magnet area that whitethorn go a projectile," nan Food and Drug Administration says connected its website about information practices surrounding magnetic resonance.

The MRI agency wherever nan incident occurred, Nassau Open MRI, is successful Westbury, a organization of astir 15,000 successful Nassau County connected Long Island.