Horror MRI accidents from crushed nurse to sex toy 'dragged through body' A woman was left with horrendous injuries after a sex toy she left inside her was dragged through her body during an MRI scan.
An image of the sex toy being dragged up through the body has circulated online and led to warnings about wearing metal objects during the scan.
Although harmless to human tissue, the magnetic field an MRI generates is 30,000 times stronger than that of the earth, capable of accelerating an object to dozens of feet per second.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners use powerful magnets to produce images of what is inside the body.
At Redwood City Medical Center in Redwood, California, a nurse was crushed in a freak accident with an MRI machine.
