India, July 20 -- Keith McAllister, a 61-year-old man from Long Island, died after being pulled into a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine at a medical facility in Westbury, New York, authorities confirmed.

The incident occurred on Wednesday at Nassau Open MRI, where McAllister was accompanying his wife, Adrienne Jones-McAllister, who was undergoing a knee scan.

According to Adrienne, her husband entered the MRI room to help her stand up from the scanning table when the powerful magnetic field activated.

"His body went limp," she told News 12 Long Island. "He went limp in my arms and this is still pulsating in my brain."

Adrienne and the attending MRI technician reportedly tried to pull McAllister away from the machine but were u...