He wasn't supposed to be in the room. There was a scan in progress when he entered.

Seems to me all they needed was a magnet of equal or greater strength placed opposite of, and perhaps a bit closer to the doorway, to pull intruders away from the MRI room.

Another Darwin award.

Can you convert that to tennis balls? I can't do this math on my own

I feel like someone should have noticed. I'm pretty sure I've never seen someone wearing a twenty pound necklace.

I always knew Roughneck McGee would meet a tragic end. Ironically he wasn't even wearing his BIG necklace.

There is a lot of conflicting information in the articles im finding about this incident, from her shouting and him running in to him entering the room with the technician, and the technician knew about the chain and had commented on it.

Lmk if you need some examples, but theres a lot.

Im (cynically) inclined to believe that the hospital were the first to give statements and did a quick its-not-our-fault response. Then more people were interviewed. Ill always side with the working class (imo everyone who is not ruling class) rather than the corporations. And in the US the hospital is a corporation for sure.

There's some gross racial spin surrounding this too, see pic below. It was a weighted padlock steel necklace for his weight training, not whatever is implied by yahoo.

That door should absolutely be locked while in operation. That door being forced open should be an e-stop event.

Someone could walk in there with a firearm or a bowey knife or anything.

Just for your information, the machine, meaning the magnet, is ALWAYS on.

His wife told News 12 Long Island in a recorded interview that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee when she asked the technician to get her husband to help her get off the table. She said she called out to him.

Where does it say he ran in? I mean, what you say sounds right, but this doesn't read like "freaking out"

Edit: Sounds like she did not freak out, but called to him to help her stand up after it was complete (bad knee), but before he was authorized to enter. This seems more like an honest mistake and tragedy. https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/20/health/mri-machine-death-long-island

I’m just thinking about the poor woman. She’s forever going to be haunted with the knowledge that she was the one who called him into the room, and thus led to his death. His decision to come in wasn’t thought out, but that probably won’t relieve her feelings of guilt for having called him in. Such a tragic story.

It wasnt a necklace...

It was a literal metal chain, like steel. Not a gold cuban link chain or something with a huge medallion a rapper would wear.

Apparently this idiot just lived everyday with a 20lb length of chain around his neck for "weight training". The article mentions it was "a topic of discussion" on a prior visit, so it wasn't a one time thing.

The type of person to do that, is 100% the type of guy to run into an active MRI like he could do anything. Theres no logical thinking going on, and an outright refusal to listen to qualified medical advice. Like, they make weighted vests, at least do that instead of putting all that weight on your neck.

how did it not throw up red flags all around letting this guy wear it around that machine.

He wasn't allowed in the room.

His wife panicked in the MRI, he charged into the room he was told not to go Into.