The incident happened on Wednesday afternoon at Nassau Open MRI, a facility on Long Island. (File Photo)A 61-year-old man has died after being pulled into an MRI machine in New York while wearing a heavy chain necklace, according to police and his wife.The incident happened on Wednesday afternoon at Nassau Open MRI, a facility on Long Island. Police said the man entered the scanning room while the machine was already running. The metal necklace he was wearing was pulled by the machine’s strong magnetic force, causing him to hit the device.The man, identified by his wife as Keith McAllister, died on Thursday, AP reported. Nassau County Police have not officially released his name.His wife, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, told News 12 Long Island that she was having an MRI scan on her knee when she asked the technician to call her husband for help getting off the table.Also read | Full-body MRI scans may not be as effective as believed to be; know why“When he came near me, the machine suddenly turned him around and pulled him in,” she said in a recorded interview. “He hit the MRI. I told them, ‘Turn the machine off, call 911, do something!’”“He waved goodbye to me and then his whole body went limp,” she said.Jones-McAllister also said her husband had previously mentioned the 20-pound chain he used for weight training, and they had spoken casually about it during an earlier visit.Story continues below this adA person who answered the phone at the MRI facility on Friday declined to comment, and no one answered on Saturday.This is not the first time someone has died in New York due to an MRI machine. In 2001, a 6-year-old boy was killed at Westchester Medical Center when an oxygen tank was pulled into the scanner. That case was settled for $2.9 million, according to court records.The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering warns that MRI machines have strong magnets that can pull in metal objects, including wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, with force.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© IE Online Media Services Pvt LtdTags:MRI