Authorities said the man was not authorized to enter the Westbury imagining room when the freak incident occurred.

A man was magnetically pulled into an MRI machine while wearing a metal chain in Nassau County on Wednesday. It happened at Nassau Open MRI on Old Country Road in Westbury just after 4:30 p.m.

A Long Island man was critically injured Wednesday when he was sucked into an MRI machine by the chain necklace he was wearing. The incident happened at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury around 4:30 p.m.

A 61-year-old man wearing a chain necklace sustained critical injuries after being sucked into an MRI machine. The man entered the magnetic resonance imaging room at Nassau Open MRI in Nassau, New ...