most inappropriate use of the word impacted

Isn’t this supposed to happen after the total collapse of the global economy?

An employee at Wal-Mart was killed yesterday when "out-of-control" shoppers broke down the doors at a sale at the discount giant's store in Long Island, New York.

Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man and at least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries following the incident.

Customers shouted angrily and kept shopping when store officials said they were closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.

…Nassau county police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the store doors at the mall about 20 miles east of Manhattan. The impatient crowd knocked the man, identified by police as Jdimytai Damour,34, of the New York city borough of Queens, to the ground as he opened the doors, leaving a metal portion of the frame crumpled like an accordion.

Shoppers stepped over Damour as he lay on the ground and streamed into the store.

Later…

Despite all of our precautions, this unfortunate event occurred," the firm's senior vice-president, Hank Mullany, said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those impacted."

By bulk e-mail, presumably. Forgive us our impacts and those who impact upon us.