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.

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.

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 ...