The Lengthy Island man killed in a freak MRI accident whereas carrying an enormous 20-pound chain was led into the machine room by a forgetful technician and wound up hooked up to the machine for an hour earlier than he may very well be launched, his household claimed.
Keith McAllister, 61, was fatally injured within the weird incident, which unfolded Wednesday afternoon inside Nassau Open MRI in Westbury whereas his spouse, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, was on the heart to have a picture of her knee taken.
“While my mother was laying on the table, the technician left the room to get her husband to help her off the table. He forgot to inform him to take the chain he was wearing from around his neck off when the magnet sucked him in,” daughter of Jones-McAllister, Samantha Bodden, wrote in a GoFundMe for burial prices.
“My mother and the tech tried for several minutes to release him before the police were called,” she wrote.
“He was attached to the machine for almost an hour before they could release the chain from the machine.”
Bodden added that McAllister was led into the room by an MRI technician who didn’t inform him to take off his chain.
“Several news stations are saying he wasn’t authorized to be in the room when in fact he was because the technician went and brought him into the room,” the assertion mentioned.
The sturdy magnetic discipline created by an MRI machine may cause metallic objects to be pulled in with power.
They’ll additionally warmth up metallic objects, probably burning a affected person.
Jones-McAllister mentioned her husband suffered a number of coronary heart assaults on account of the incident, which finally led to his demise.
