A man fatally injured after being pulled into an MRI machine in Westbury, New York, has been identified by family as 61-year-old Keith McAllister — and now loved ones are raising funds to lay him to rest while disputing parts of the official account.

Keith McAllister’s wife was by his side when he was fatally injured in a freak MRI accident. In an emotional new interview with News 12 Long Island, Adrienne Jones-McAllister tearfully recalled the moment she “saw the machine snatch him” and “pull him" in by a necklace he was wearing.

Keith McAllister, 61, was mortally wounded in the bizarre incident, which unfolded Wednesday afternoon inside Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, Long Island.

The incident occurred around 4:34 p.m. local time on the afternoon of July 16 at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, New York. The victim, whose identity has not been released, was not authorized to be in the MRI room. He reportedly entered wearing “a large ...