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 61-year-old man who suffered critical injuries after being pulled into an MRI machine while wearing a metal chain has died, police said Friday. The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon at a medical building in Westbury, New York, according to the Nassau County Police Department.

A man in Long Island, New York, has passed away at the age of 61 after suffering injuries stemming from an accident involving a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine. According to Nassau County Police,