Clamping part of the PCIe slot fell out while taking out the GPU

What I want to know is, would it be safe to put the video card in a different slot and just ignore the broken slot? And, if not, would it be

After a month it has been fixed, turned out back side of mobo resistor which is for PCIE slot was damaged and technician fixed it, now it works perfectly well

broken slot machine A part had fell out and I thought I had broken my graphics card for sure, but it did not fit the GPU nor it looked like the card was damaged, a

broken bed frame rail slot USB headers, PCIE slots suddenly stop working I damaged that you can externally see or possibly a bad or corrupt BIOS installed