A man was critically injured after getting sucked into an MRI machine during an incident on New York's Long Island, according to police. Nassau County police said the 61-year-old man wearing a metallic necklace was pulled off his feet by the magnetic machine when he suddenly entered the exam room.

The man was wearing a large metal necklace when he entered a room where the machine, which uses a powerful magnetic field to create images, was operating.

A man was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large chain necklace, police said.The man, 61, had entered an MRI room while a scan was underway Wednesday afternoon at Nassau Open MRI.