The family of a Long Island man who died after being sucked into an MRI machine by his chain necklace has hired a lawyer, who called his death “preventable.”

A man was critically injured after getting sucked into an MRI machine at a medical center on New York's Long Island, according to police.

A man is in critical condition after being sucked into an MRI machine when he walked into a room where a scan was in progress while wearing a metal chain, authorities say.