Two injured when moving MRI machine
KENNESAW, Ga. - Two people were injured when an MRI machine they were moving at a medical office exploded from amix of chemicals inside, officials said.
The workers for Turnkey Medical Engineering Inc. were moving the Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanner at Atlanta
Diagnostics Center when helium and liquid nitrogen combined to blast the end bell off the device, said firefighter Denell
Boyd of the Cobb County Fire Department.
One had shrapnel in the back of the head and the other an injured arm, and they were taken to the hospital although the
injuries were not considered serious, Boyd said.
The sheetrock on an inside wall was damaged but the structure, a one-story building in an office complex, was sound, she
said.
Boyd said officials believed 500 liters of liquid nitrogen remained inside the tank, but they were unsure because a gauge
was broken.