If you don't understand what it going on with hitch pins, that can be fairly misleading. It is very similar to the bent pin at the 10" span above. In normal use, a hitch pin is fully supported close to the inside walls of the hitch receiver tube so the bending forces are concentrated at the small gaps to either side of whatever hitch draw bar or tube is being used. The pin is essentially operating in shear. When you stick that through the eye of a strap, that moves it into bending and out of shear due to width of the strap eye.
I've still never seen a bent pin but I don't discount the possibility in a receiver when used with a strap.
I thought it was odd that Apparition had one that said 9 metric tons but then realized the same thing. It would take a lot more when the forces are concentrated to the outside versus the middle of the pin. Of course you worded it better but the same idea.