The wife of the Long Island man killed in a freak MRI accident this accident has broken her silence, suggesting the imaging machine’s technician is to blame for her husband’s premature death.
“His body went limp,” a grieving Adrienne Jones-McAllister told News 12 Long Island through tears.
“He went limp in my arms and this is still pulsating in my brain.”
Keith McAllister, 61, was fatally injured in the bizarre incident, which unfolded Wednesday afternoon inside Nassau Open MRI in Westbury.
Adrienne Jones-McAllister was at the MRI center to have an image of her knee taken, she told the outlet.
Her husband, who she said usually wears a massive 20-pound chain around his neck, normally comes into the MRI room at some point during her appointments to help her get from the table to her feet., she said
But on Wednesday, tragedy befell the couple.
Adrienne McAllister was laughing with the MRI technician as they entered the room, she said, and “in that instant, the machine switched him around, and pulled him in.”
The panicked wife and the MRI technician both tried prying Keith Jones-McAllister from the machine, Adrienne Jones-McAllister said, but were unable to free him.
She said the technician dropped the ball.
“That was not the first time that guy has seen that chain” on her husband, she said. “They had a conversation about it before.”
Her husband was wearing the bulky chain as part of his weight training, the grieving wife said.
The strong magnetic field created by an MRI machine can cause metal objects to be pulled in with force.
They can also heat up metal objects, potentially burning a patient.
Adrienne Jones-McAllister said her husband suffered several heart attacks as a result of the incident, which ultimately led to his death.
