LI Man Killed In Freak MRI Accident Was Wearing 20LB Chain Necklace With Padlock

[Sugar Cookie]

The Long Island man who was killed in a freak MRI machine accident was sporting a staggering 20-pound chain necklace adorned with a padlock at the time of the tragedy, his grieving wife said.

Keith McAllister, 61, died after suffering several heart attacks following the bizarre incident at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury last Wednesday.

At the time, his wife Adrienne Jones-McAllister was undergoing a routine knee scan in the MRI machine.

She said that McAllister would typically enter the exam room to help her get back on her feet near the end of her appointments and never had an issue before the deadly incident.

McAllister had taken to wearing the hulking 20-pound necklace as part of his weight training, Jones-McAllister explained to News 12 Long Island.

When McAllister entered the exam room with the technician, the machine suddenly “switched him around, and pulled him in,” Jones-McAllister said.

Jones-McAllister and the technician tried in vain to pry McAllister off of the machine while she pleaded all the while for someone to turn it off.

Long Island man killed in freak MRI accident was wearing 20-pound chain necklace with padlock

McAllister had taken to wearing the hulking 20-pound necklace as part of his weight training.

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[thuumpr]

20lb chain? OG rapper?

 

[BuffettGirl]

Legit saw this 70ish year old dude in Target the other day sporting Mr. T chains. I didn't know whether to giggle or cry...


ETA: added a needed "ing" to the word "sport"...

 

[Kleng]

Life is a comedy and a tragedy.

 

[BuffettGirl]

I forgot to mention that ol' dude was White AF. It was bizarro world!

 

[Alf]

There was an episode of Gilligan's Island where Gilligan was under the minimum allowable weight for his height, so he weighed in with a length of anchor chain around his neck to bring his weight above the minimum. But that was fiction.

--Al

 

[DamagedGoods]

Don't MRIs use incredibly powerful magnetization? Seems like a bad thing to wear 20 pounds of metal around your neck near.

 

[Alf]

Yes ma'am they do. Those incredibly powerful magnetic fields are courtesy of superconductors, which are maintained in the superconducting state by use of liquid Helium. Starting a MRI is an incredibly involved process and can take days to complete. They run 24/7/365 because turning them off is not a decision arrived at without serious consideration, given that the machine will not be usable for imaging patients until the machine has started and, possibly, been recalibrated.

That having been said, one would think that having somebody suspended from their neck because of the magnetic fields' attraction to their necklace would be one of those situations that would demand the use of the Shut-It-Off switch unless the injuries he sustained when the magnetic field snatched him up and slammed him up against the cabinet were not compatible with survival.

--Al

 

[thuumpr]

the machine will not be usable for imaging patients until the machine has started and, possibly, been recalibrated.

And cleaned! Don't forget cleaned! Got to get every single bit feces off the inners and sanitize it!

 

[DamagedGoods]

Yes ma'am they do. Those incredibly powerful magnetic fields are courtesy of superconductors, which are maintained in the superconducting state by use of liquid Helium. Starting a MRI is an incredibly involved process and can take days to complete. They run 24/7/365 because turning them off is not a decision arrived at without serious consideration, given that the machine will not be usable for imaging patients until the machine has started and, possibly, been recalibrated.

That having been said, one would think that having somebody suspended from their neck because of the magnetic fields' attraction to their necklace would be one of those situations that would demand the use of the Shut-It-Off switch unless the injuries he sustained when the magnetic field snatched him up and slammed him up against the cabinet were not compatible with survival.

--Al

Thank you! That's extremely informative and... Oh I've missed you!