"He waved goodbye to me," said his wife when explaining that her husband entered the room to help her as she was having a knee MRI. A 61-year-old man, wearing a heavy metal collar, died after being sucked into a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine at Nassau Open MRI medical center in Westbury,

A man succumbed to injuries after the metallic chain around his neck caused him to be pulled into an active MRI machine at Nassau Open MRI, underscoring FDA warnings about MRI projectile risks.

New York police said the 61-year-old man was wearing a large metal chain that caused him to be "drawn into the machine." The FDA warns that MRI scan create a "strong, static magnetic field."