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The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Man dies after weight-training chain around neck pulls him into MRI machine

a man looking at a camera
Keith McAllister. Photograph: GoFundMe

A man who wore a large weight-training chain around his neck and approached his wife while a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine scanned her knee at a clinic in New York died after the device forcefully pulled him, according to police and media reports.

Keith McAllister, 61, was killed at the Nassau Open MRI clinic in Westbury, Long Island, after he accompanied his wife, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, there on 16 July.

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