The man was wearing a large metal necklace when he entered a room where the machine, which uses a powerful magnetic field to create images, was operating.

The 61-year-old was wearing a large metallic chain around his neck when he was drawn into the machine, Nassau County police said. He later died of his injuries.

A man in Long Island, New York, has passed away at the age of 61 after suffering injuries stemming from an accident involving a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine. According to Nassau County Police,