61-year-old man in critical condition after being pulled into MRI machine while wearing metal chain

WESTBURY, New York -- A antheral was magnetically pulled into an MRI instrumentality portion wearing a metallic concatenation successful Nassau County, New York connected Wednesday.

It happened astatine Nassau Open MRI erstwhile detectives accidental the 61-year-old antheral walked into an MRI country portion a scan was successful advancement and was drawn into the machine.

Officials accidental the incidental caused a aesculapian occurrence and the antheral was rushed to a section infirmary successful captious condition.

Nassau County Police accidental that the unfortunate was not a diligent and was determination with idiosyncratic else.

The probe is ongoing, but constabulary accidental determination is nary criminality progressive and it appears to beryllium an accident.

Nassau Open MRI, which has respective different locations, offers some unfastened and closed scans.

At adjacent North Shore University Hospital, aesculapian professionals said they were shocked, and that rigorous information protocols should beryllium successful spot to debar attracting metallic objects.

"If this was a concatenation that was wrapped astir the neck, I could ideate immoderate benignant of strangulation injuries that could happen, asphyxiation, cervical spine injuries if the diligent was slammed against the MRI, you know, immoderate benignant of blunt unit trauma that we tin deliberation astir could happen," said exigency medicine Dr. Payal Sud.