DOI stands for Date of Injury.

• A. Date of Injury
• B. Date of Incident
• C. Date of Inception
• D. Date of Initiation

Answer: (A)

Date of Injury is the date the injury actually occurred, and it serves as the reference point for starting the claim, guiding benefits eligibility, and setting filing deadlines in workers’ compensation and self‑insurance administration. That timing is what the system uses to calculate when medical treatment, indemnity payments, and other actions begin.

Date of Incident might seem similar, but the established term used for benefit timing is Date of Injury, not just when the incident happened. The other options describe beginnings of something (inception or initiation), which are not the term used to timestamp an injury in this context.