Heartbreaking final act of man sucked into MRI machine as helpless wife watched
A heartbroken wife has shared the last thing her husband did before he died in a freak MRI accident.
Keith McAllister, 61, tragically passed away after he was pulled into the machine by his chain necklace at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, Long Island, on Wednesday.
He endured multiple heart attacks after being rescued from the machine and later died, said Nassau County Police.
His distraught wife Adrienne Jones-McAllister has spoken out about the ordeal, and admitted the last thing he did was wave goodbye to her, before his body went "limp".
She says Keith had entered the room to help her get up after she had an MRI on her knee. Adrienne had asked the worker to call him over for support.
However, she claims that the technician allowed her husband in the room without asking him to remove his 20-pound weight-training chain. As soon as he walked over to the table she was sitting on, the machine was able to "snatch him" immediately.
Speaking about the horrific moment, she said: "At that instant, the machine switched him around, pulled him in and he hit the MRI." Adrienne begged the worker to turn it off and recalled: "I said: 'Could you turn off the machine, call 911, do something, turn this damn thing off. He went limp in my arms, and this is still pulsating in my brain."
Adrienne claimed that the technician had seen Keith wearing the chain before, reports News 12 Long Island. "That was not the first time that guy has seen that chain," she claimed. "They had a conversation about it before."
She paid tribute to her "hard working" husband and added that she "loved him so much." Adrienne continued: "I haven't been able to sleep, I'm barely eating, I just can't believe [it]. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole thing. He waved goodbye to me, and his whole body went limp."
A spokesperson for Nassau County Police Department said, the man "entered an unauthorised Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) room while the scan was in progress."
In the statement, they added: "The male victim was wearing a large metallic chain around his neck causing him to be drawn into the machine which resulted in a medical episode." In an update two days later, police confirmed that he had "succumbed to his injuries and was declared deceased by a hospital physician."
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