Long Island man, 61, dies after getting sucked into MRI machine while wearing large metal chain

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Long Island man, 61, dies after getting sucked into MRI machine while wearing large metal chain​

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Shane Galvin
Published July 18, 2025, 5:19 p.m. ET
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A 61-year-old man who was sucked into an MRI machine on Long Island while wearing a metal neck chain has died from his injuries, authorities revealed Friday.
The freak accident happened Wednesday at Nassau County Open MRI in Westbury when the man was pulled into the magnetic resonance imaging machine by his “large metal chain,” Nassau County cops said in a release.

The freak incident occurred Wednesday at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, Long Island.Brigitte Stelzer
The 61-year-old was not authorized to be in the imaging room.Brigitte Stelzer
The unidentified victim immediately suffered a serious medical episode and was pronounced dead at a North Shore University Hospital on Thursday, police said.

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Officials said the man was not a patient but was accompanying someone else who was to undergo a medical scan, ABC reported.
Witnesses told CBS the man defied orders to stay out of the MRI room because his relative was screaming in pain.
The man’s cause of death was not revealed by officials, but a staff doctor at North Shore University Hospital speculated on what could have happened.
“If this was a chain that was wrapped around the neck, I could imagine any kind of strangulation injuries that could happen,” Dr. Payal Sud told CBS.

“Asphyxiation, cervical spine injuries.
An investigation is underway, but no criminality is suspected.

 

[Hammerstein]

Aortic valve is from a pig.

Biological then.

 

[MadStan]

Why was he even wearing weight training chains around his neck to his wife’s MRI appointment in the first place?

I can’t fathom any gym bro that I know of doing that.

He was wearing it thinking he could get “close enough” to make it “hurt his neck” so he could sue the hospital.

I saw the widows interview, this was a set-up from the word go and it went to their heads.

There was no “accident” just a nigger pay-day scam gone wrong.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

IIRC the helium dump is more a byproduct. They increase the resistance in the coil, which leads to heat, which boils the helium off and it blows out through a dedicated conduit. But yeah, IF nothing else damaged the device, and IF the shunt resistors properly sent the current to a safe external load, then you're still looking at a lot of time (meaning $$) inspecting, then more $$ replacing the liquid helium, and then several more days ($$) to bring the device back up to operational levels and re-calibrate everything. Just guessing out my ass here, but I'd say a week of downtime would have to be expected. Meaning lost revenue.

An emergency turn off is called a quench and it can be dicey depending on where the helium would be expelled and where this dumbfuck was stuck. Might have frozen his head.

I have not heard any mention of the machine being quenched, which is odd. The two reasons for a quench are a fire and emergency like this…and it’s been reported he was stuck for 50 minutes.


Fir all the ppl talking about claustrophobia, this was an open MRI facility so she didn’t have to be in the tube.

@MadStan
I totally believe these geniuses may have been trying to set up a lawsuit scam. Unless they can prove this guy was regularly walking around with 20 lb chains, I think this was a retarded “gets us a settlement check” /niggers are bad at science type idea. Her job was to “scream in pain” to get him to bust in wearing his 20 lb chain. He thought he might get bruised and have “psychological trauma” and get $350k thanks to a lawsuit claiming whiplash, negligence and psychological distress.

 

[Turkey Beef]

Magnets Be Raycis An Shieeet!

 

[wopirish]

Why anyone would leave their home wearing a buttplug, let alone to a doctors appointment, is beyond human understanding.

I think it was found out that it was a tranny that kept being called a "she" despite the obvious urethra and male genetalia.

So definitely for the cooooooom of heckin validation.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Leaked video of man wearing chain killed after being pulled into MRI machine while trying to assist wife - Westbury, New York, USA (2025.07.17)

I really, really did not expect to ever see this video. I figured it was so high profile that it would be buried deep in the vault and never see the light of day.

I respect the weight training but maybe not do it at the hospital.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

I really, really did not expect to ever see this video. I figured it was so high profile that it would be buried deep in the vault and never see the light of day.

I respect the weight training but maybe not do it at the hospital.

Welp, that sure doesn’t look like he barged in without permission. That business is probably fucked.

 

[indomitable snowman]

I know this is bad, but it's funny the guys wife was able to stand up on her own in the end. Probably a big rush of adrenaline.

He seems to casually walk in with his phone in his hand and chain on neck. The nurse or whatever sees him with this and doesn't seem to make any attempt to stop him. There appears to be other metal objects (walker ect) in the MRI room.
Everyone in that room has a combined IQ of the temperature of the liquid helium.

 

[AuraofGoon]

I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE. RIP KANG.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Welp, that sure doesn’t look like he barged in without permission. That business is probably fucked.

I'm not sure if the operator even hit the emergency button, but it still would have taken up to 30 seconds for the magnetic field to completely decay according to this video.

It looks like he immediately goes to help him first, like he's expecting it to be a minor oopsie that could be solved by pulling at him a little, and not expecting the guy to be wearing a 20 pound chain and lock combo around his neck. *RIP*

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Magnets Be Raycis An Shieeet!

 

[N Space]

'Guess the race' was too easy this time.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

'Guess the race' was too easy this time.

"Guess how serious his condition is" was also easy.

 

[BoobWhiskers]

I really, really did not expect to ever see this video. I figured it was so high profile that it would be buried deep in the vault and never see the light of day.

I respect the weight training but maybe not do it at the hospital.

He seems to be kicking and struggling quite a bit there; like he wasn't just insta-gibbed. Are those aftermath death throes, or did this guy get slowly suffocated by the chain rather than the decapitation/broken neck scenario everyone was anticipating? That might explain why they thought they could help him, that it really wasn't instantaneous death and they thought the amount of magnetism was weak enough that they could get him loose without hitting the big red expensive button?

 

[repentance]

Welp, that sure doesn’t look like he barged in without permission. That business is probably fucked.

Why the fuck is the walking frame in the room, too?

Not every metal presents a risk but the reason there's usually a blanket "no metal" rule is because patients don't necessarily have/give accurate information and it shouldn't be left to technicians to decide whether or not the information they've been given is accurate.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Why the fuck is the walking frame in the room, too?

Not every metal presents a risk but the reason there's usually a blanket "no metal" rule is because patients don't necessarily have/give accurate information and it shouldn't be left to technicians to decide whether or not the information they've been given is accurate.

Honestly looks like lapsed safety protocols after the low quality help found out ‘hey I brought my mug in and nothing happened, it must be okay!’ until we get what happened here. Just my guess.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

He seems to be kicking and struggling quite a bit there; like he wasn't just insta-gibbed. Are those aftermath death throes, or did this guy get slowly suffocated by the chain rather than the decapitation/broken neck scenario everyone was anticipating? That might explain why they thought they could help him, that it really wasn't instantaneous death and they thought the amount of magnetism was weak enough that they could get him loose without hitting the big red expensive button?

If you fullscreen the video, you can see the chain and lock start to slide in towards the magnet. It looks like it's tugging from the right side of the neck. It's not going super fast, but once it's in contact with the walls, the rest of it wants to get as close as possible, and his neck is in between. The thickness of the chain links could have prevented decapitation with the increased surface area. But it was a heavy chain that was definitely suffocating him and doing tissue and spinal damage at the same time. Internal bleeding for sure. I think it's possible that he was alive and kicking throughout the whole thing, but it seems like you would pass out fast.

There must have been hundreds of minor incidents globally with necklaces resulting in broken jewelry and a little bleeding or soreness. This is probably the first man in history to bring his 20 pound neck chain into a strong magnetic field. He was a BDSM pioneer. I think the operator panicked.

 

[BoobWhiskers]

It's not going super fast, but once it's in contact with the walls, the rest of it wants to get as close as possible, and his neck is in between.

Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking and not really sure how to word; just slowly crushed by the constant growing pressure.

Yuck, what an awful way to go. Hope it knocked him out sooner rather than later, that'd be a lot better than the alternative.

 

[Fred Jones -Traplord]

As much as I want to blame the retard for walking in after they presumably told him about the danger, this is definitly the techs faults. They left the door open and didnt say shit. To me it looks like they fucked up their safety protocols leading to a tard falling into a puddle and drowning.

 

[JosephStalin]

I really, really did not expect to ever see this video. I figured it was so high profile that it would be buried deep in the vault and never see the light of day.

I respect the weight training but maybe not do it at the hospital.

The place I saw in the video is 180 degrees off from where I had mine done. There's a lot to be said for using a hospital right next to Pebble Beach.