I think that's the best answer you're going to get.
But you'd know best on how you put down that bowl, I've tried putting back a hide with the snake still under, sometimes it works and other times it ends on top of them and I have to wait until they move. If I'm slowly putting the hide down and its on the snake, there's no way they'd get harmed, but if I had some height and dropped It, that would be a different story. You had a water bowl, definitely heavy enough if you dropped it from a good height, it could cause damage. But if you were slowly and had control putting it down and even if all the weight was on one corner and it landed on the snake, I'd be surprised that occurred.
My take on it all. Hope you and the snake all the best. Might just be a cool "deformation"