An unidentified man was critically injured when get got sucked into an MRI machine in Long Island by his own metal necklace.

A man wearing a large metal necklace was pulled into an MRI machine in New York. The 61-year-old, who has not been named, was pulled by the machine's strong magnetic force after he entered a room at the Nassau Open MRI clinic while a scan was under way, Nassau County Police said.

A man was critically injured after getting sucked into an MRI machine at a medical center on New York's Long Island, according to police.