It looked to me like that was how the BRS was attached, I don't think it was caught on the fuse, just that's it's natural hang point probably.
As for re-using an aircraft after a chute pull, I don't think that's the norm is it, the stresses put on an aircraft through a deployment would at a minimum require a complete strip and rebuild I'd imagine.
I think this is a good advertisement for BRS chutes for aerobatic aircraft, this is exactly what they are best for, catastrophic structural failure, without the chute, this poor fellow would have been very much dead.
Well done that man!