I don't think you can actually "stress" a CF fork. Barring damage of some sort, or poor engineering, it ought to last forever. A poorly engineered fork ought to fail fairly quickly.
Both of my budies had logged tens of thousands of miles on their bikes. Both very experienced. They simply have no recall or their accidents. I just don't know how you can be sure the fork failed first, thus causing the accident. It could have been a squirrel, deer, a rock, a stick as you mentioned, who knows? Another friend of mine was basically attacked by a cat who broadsided him at 25mph. The cat was wedged between the front spokes and the fork blade until he finally got the bike slowed down and then finally he endoed. Then the cat took off (a bloody mess). I wouldn't have believed it had I not witnessed it.
Anyway, you can't dwell too much on such things. Get a new fork if it's freaking you out...no disrespect intended.
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