The same happened to my BMMCC early on, and BM support gave me this reply:
"After assessing the picture you've sent over, I'm sorry to say that the damage sustained to this unit will not be covered by the warranty due to physical damage.
We will be more than happy to have this unit returned for assessment although we can't guarantee that we can repair it.
Until we assess this unit we won't be able to establish whether there has been further internal damage to the camera and whether this is repairable."
Since the camera was (and still is) otherwise functioning correctly, I opted not to ship it to them and modified a spare Wooden Camera BMPCC cage to attach to the two remaining threads at the bottom as well as the thread on top. Not only did it fix the issue of the flimsy thread block on BMMCC, I also gained a second in-line mounting thread to prevent the camera from twisting on a base plate.
I am not sure whether the weak mounting points on the pocket and micro bodies are a deliberate design choice or an accident but I would say neither of them should ever be mounted without a cage to protect the fragile bodies (well, 99% of the time at least).
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