Wal-Mart Will Fight for Its Honor, Stampede Deaths be Damned 3.63K Jeff Neumann 07/07/10 04:20AM Filed to: Shopping Shopping Wal Mart Stampedes Wal mart of death merry christmas Wal-Mart has spent over $1 million fighting a $7,000 fine over the stampede death of a Long Island employee on Black Friday in 2008. The store says "crowd trampling" is not an occupational hazard. Image is everything in retail.