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NEW YORK - A 61-year-old man has died after a freak accident involving an MRI machine and a metal chain at a medical facility in Westbury, according to Nassau County Police.

"That’s insane. That should’ve never happened." — Orlando Hernandez, Bystander

What happened:

The man reportedly entered the MRI room at Nassau Open MRI Wednesday afternoon to help a patient despite being advised not to by a technician.

The metal chain around his neck was pulled into the machine’s powerful magnetic field, triggering what police called a "medical episode." He was rushed to a hospital in critical condition and later died.

A computer tomograph (CT) is located in a radiology . Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images) Expand

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