It is a sad thing it happened but everyone knows wearing any kind of metal near the machine, can create an issue. It's not like there aren't any warnings unless there were no signs posted. Every mri machine/room door has numerous signs that I have seen and the techs/people working there ask many times about if you have any metal on you. Unless the tech screwed up, and even then, there has to be some blame placed on the man for doing something he knew to be wrong.

You're calling BS and there's more to it. So you're saying he's not dead? That's good news.

As far as emergency shut off's go, his neck could have been broken by then.

Many years ago, as friend of mine had a mountain bike crash. They sent him to Open MRI (different location, same company). Got the scan, they got back to him with the results saying he was okay, didn't find anything. He took the disc of the images to another doctor who looked at them and immediately told him he had torn ligaments, or something (too long ago). Point being, not running a top level operation.

Deliverd gases to the hospitals. A codriver had a few metal shards left in his eye from an accident. They wouldn't let him walk past the doorway to the room.

I saw Final Destination Bloodlines earlier this summer. The MRI death scene seems a lot less far-fetched after reading about this accident.

I’m curious. Once he opens the door, does he get dragged to the machine instantly, perhaps breaking his neck, or strangulating him, or crushing his skull?

Does the 20lb necklace simply act as a noose at this point?

Sorry for the morbid curiosity

Who the hell wears 20 pounds around their neck?
20 ounces would irritate me.

His wife said he had a padlock on the chain too.

For those saying that they should've just shut down the MRI, it's not that simple. You have to do a magnet quench, and it looks like this on the outside of the hospital:

FTA - "Adrienne told the local outlet News 12 Long Island that an MRI machine there was scanning her knee when she called out to her husband, “Keith, come help me up” from the table. The technician operating the machine – which looks like a long, narrow tube with openings on each end – then allowed Keith to walk in while he wore a nearly 20lb (9kg) metal chain that he used for weight training."

Elsewhere an alternative report was mentioned where the wife panicked, her husband heard and barged his way in. Another report stated the wife said as her husband had been pulled in, he waved goodbye.

Something happened, that seems to be what we know.

The first time I had the “pleasure” of a MRI I was asked a number of questions. Did I have staples, joint replacement, studs, etc? The oddest one, and I had to ask to repeat it, was a spring in my eyelid, I don’t recall the exact term. Apparently for some people their eyelid droops and a spring can be put in to help it stay open.

Reminds me of the MRI scene when Bond gets into a fight with Zao....

Definitely more to this story than what's in the article however, at face value....the patient calls-out to her husband for assistance and the technician goes to get him, allowing him inside while wearing this chain, you've got some dumb & negligent individuals involved.

He paid his crooked pawn shop solid gold price for a plated chain.



Surprise!

I wonder if the strong MRI field might have magnetized the chain?

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I wonder if the strong MRI field might have magnetized the chain?

The chain (and likely padlock) had to be of ferrous metal (iron or steel). Doesn't need to be magnetized, the magnet of the MRI has a power that is difficult to comprehend, but the same type of magnetism as a toy magnet, just millions of times more.
People have been killed by workmen's hammers being flung into the magnet at very high speed.

From 2023:

Lawyer dies after he is shot by gun that was triggered by MRI scanner

From 2012:

Spontaneous Discharge of a Firearm in an MR Imaging Environment

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^^^That second story is wild. The gun was cocked and locked, the magnetic field somehow disabled the firing pin block and the muzzle hit the MRI machine with enough force that the now free floating firing pin struck and set off the primer.

Sounds like suicide for profit to me.

While active duty I had a left shoulder MRI while wearing a riggers belt-large metal buckle and D-ring. It pulled my waist up,but not to the underside of the machine.
And as stated earlier, they are so loud no one could hear you outside the room.