Highly doubt a rope is going to bend anything. Just a flesh wound.

I used to run over at least one rope each summer. The cause of too much going on in the boat and not enough paying attention. Now when we have a rider in the water there are assignments - DJ, roper, flagger, translater for WTF they are signaling or yelling back to the boat, etc. The captain has to throw out a few reminders every once in a while but this usually works.