{"id":77700,"date":"2025-07-20T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77700\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:00:43","slug":"long-island-man-killed-by-mri-machine-had-worn-bulky-chain-into-same-room-before-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77700\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island man killed by MRI machine had worn bulky chain into same room before: wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wife of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/18\/us-news\/long-island-man-dies-after-getting-sucked-into-mri-machine-while-wearing-large-metal-chain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Long Island man killed <\/a>in a freak MRI accident has broken her silence, suggesting the imaging machine\u2019s technician is to blame for her husband\u2019s premature death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis body went limp,\u201d a grieving <a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/police-man-pulled-into-mri-machine-by-necklace-dies-from-his-injuries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrienne Jones-McAllister told News 12 Long Island<\/a> through tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe went limp in my arms and this is still pulsating in my brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne Jones-McAllister said her husband was instantly pulled into the machine. news12<\/p>\n<p>Jones-McAllister said the Nassau Open MRI technician knew her husband was wearing the chain, suggesting they are to blame for her husband\u2019s premature death. news12<\/p>\n<p>Keith McAllister, 61, was fatally injured in the bizarre incident, which unfolded Wednesday afternoon inside Nassau Open MRI in Westbury.<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne Jones-McAllister was at the MRI center to have an image of her knee taken, she told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband, who she said usually wears a massive 20-pound chain around his neck, normally comes into the MRI room at some point during her appointments to help her get from the table to her feet., she said<\/p>\n<p>But on Wednesday, tragedy befell the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne McAllister was laughing with the MRI technician as they entered the room, she said, and \u201cin that instant, the machine switched him around, and pulled him in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The panicked wife and the MRI technician both tried prying Keith Jones-McAllister from the machine, Adrienne Jones-McAllister said, but were unable to free him.<\/p>\n<p>Keith McAllister died after suffering several heart attacks. Brigitte Stelzer<\/p>\n<p>She said the technician dropped the ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was not the first time that guy has seen that chain\u201d on her husband, she said. \u201cThey had a conversation about it before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her husband was wearing the bulky chain as part of his weight training, the grieving wife said.<\/p>\n<p>Keith McAllister was 61 years old when he died from the freak accident. Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The strong magnetic field created by an MRI machine can cause metal objects to be pulled in with force. <\/p>\n<p>They can also heat up metal objects, potentially burning a patient.<\/p>\n<p>Adrienne Jones-McAllister said her husband suffered several heart attacks as a result of the incident, which ultimately led to his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wife of the Long Island man killed in a freak MRI accident has broken her silence, suggesting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,634,4446,48396,5248,7834,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-77700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-burns","10":"tag-death","11":"tag-freak-accidents","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-nassau-county","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114884983293311264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}