Man Dies After Heavy Weight-Training Chain Around Neck Pulls Him Into MRI Machine

Man Dies After Heavy Weight-Training Chain Around Neck Pulls Him Into MRI Machine
A brain-scanning MRI machine in Pittsburgh on Nov. 26, 2014. Keith Srakocic/AP Photo
|Updated:
0:00

WESTBURY, N.Y.—A man who was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large weight-training chain around his neck has died, according to police and his wife, who told a local television outlet that he waved goodbye before his body went limp.

The man, 61, had entered an MRI room while a scan was underway Wednesday afternoon at Nassau Open MRI. The machine’s strong magnetic force drew him in by the metallic chain around his neck, according to a release from the Nassau County Police Department.