The man was wearing a large metal necklace when he entered a room where the machine, which uses a powerful magnetic field to create images, was operating.

Keith McAllister, 61, was mortally wounded in the bizarre incident, which unfolded Wednesday afternoon inside Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, Long Island.

LONG ISLAND, N.Y. (News 12 Long Island) - A man died after being sucked into an MRI machine, and his wife is talking about the horrifying incident. “I saw the machine snatch him around and pull him into the machine. He lost, he went limp in my arms,” Adrienne Jones-McCallister said.