C J Hobbs, J Osman. Genital injuries in boys and abuse (Arch Dis Child 2007;92:328–31). Seven “accidental injuries” should have been described in this paper to make a total of 86 cases. In table 5 the additional extra case is: “3 year old with sharply defined superficial transverse cut over dorsum of penis at base of shaft and the history that a thin plastic toilet seat fell on him”.