Overview

• He entered the active MRI suite wearing an approximately 9-kilogram training chain and was violently drawn into the scanner’s bore.
• The victim was hospitalized following the July 16 incident and died the next afternoon, as confirmed by police on July 18.
• Investigators have opened a formal probe into possible protocol breaches while the MRI provider has not publicly addressed the incident.
• Fatal MRI accidents are extraordinarily uncommon, with New York’s last similar case in 2001 when an oxygen tank killed a six-year-old.
• The case has prompted renewed scrutiny of MRI safety procedures to reinforce strict no-metal policies in imaging suites.