{"id":157608,"date":"2025-07-19T22:40:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/man-dies-after-being-sucked-into-long-island-mri-machine-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:40:58","slug":"man-dies-after-being-sucked-into-long-island-mri-machine-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/man-dies-after-being-sucked-into-long-island-mri-machine-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after being sucked into Long Island MRI machine &#8211; NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Profile<br \/>Sections<br \/>Local<br \/>tv<br \/>Featured<br \/>More From NBC<br \/>Follow NBC News<br \/> news Alerts<br \/>There are no new alerts at this time<br \/>A 61-year-old man in New York has died after he was sucked into a magnetic resonance imaging machine this week, Nassau County police said Friday.<br \/>The man was wearing a large metal chain and entered a room without authorization as the MRI machine, which uses a strong magnetic field, was running at a medical office in Westbury on Wednesday afternoon, police said.<br \/>The metal necklace caused him \u201cto be drawn into the machine which resulted in a medical episode,\u201d police said, noting the incident occurred around 4:30 p.m.<br \/>He was pronounced dead from his injuries at a hospital at 2:36 p.m. Thursday, police said in Friday\u2019s update.<br \/>Safety rules surrounding MRI machines require that people bring nothing metal into the procedure room. Patients are typically required to change out of clothes before entering and screened about any implants or metal in their bodies.<br \/>\u201cCareful screening of people and objects entering the MR environment is critical to ensure nothing enters the magnet area that may become a projectile,\u201d the Food and Drug Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/radiation-emitting-products\/mri-magnetic-resonance-imaging\/benefits-and-risks\" target=\"_blank\">says on its website <\/a>about safety practices surrounding magnetic resonance.<br \/>The MRI office where the incident occurred, Nassau Open MRI, is in Westbury, a community of around 15,000 in Nassau County on Long Island.<br \/>Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.<br \/>&copy;&nbsp;2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLC<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikAFBVV95cUxNeFZhLWRvX3JaT2x0OHFpOF9JS25sQTNsS042VjBpZDloaWJaNDJlV0MwVllpYmhPSmJTSWN6b1h1TkVTTWJlSXNXN1FxdXdBcEhPLTFkY05XTzNjbGpmRmw1MGxaaC0zN0RXT25OOG1RLUh1WkJvaVplVUpWZkN6Y3FZazZUTjlkZ282M2FlbjjSAVZBVV95cUxPSzRuXzdJaGFlaW5BUkJmVUMySmhoRk5MUlFuT1VvZHZlRnRjVkpWQXEzdnA2YnpNR1pTSXNIODRLQXlEZmNIWkFKM0l3c1FHT3owTHhiQQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProfileSectionsLocaltvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC News news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeA 61-year-old man in New York has died after he was sucked into a magnetic resonance imaging machine this week, Nassau County police said Friday.The man was wearing a large metal chain and entered a room without authorization as the MRI machine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}