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.

A man in Long Island, N.Y., is dead after a metal chain he was wearing pulled him toward an MRI machine at a private clinic, police confirmed.

A 61-year-old man died after being pulled into an MRI machine by its magnetic field at Nassau Open MRI in Long Island. Authorities are investigating the incident.

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.