I had a wooden splinter on my left ankle, I was sitting at a wooden deck next to a ferry stop place, then when I want to get up my left ankle scraped on the wooden deck and a wood splinter got in my ankle. It didn t went in vertically but went in horizontally across the skin. Here s a pic of the wound after I manage to take the bigger piece out : http://a64.tinypic.com/14dmzc3.jpg It only bleed a little after I took the big piece out, and as you can see there s still smaller pieces left in there so I went to a doctor, the doctor manage to take all the pieces out with local anesthetic. The doctor open up the wound and there was some bleeding happening, the wound it s now covered with a gauze. I asked the doctor whether there is any risk of tetanus, as I haven t had a tetanus shot in more than 10 years (in fact I don t think I ve ever had one?), as I don t like the idea of having vaccination and their possible side effects. The doctor said it should be fine without one as it s not a deep puncture and the wooden deck doesn t have any rust etc. but I would like to ask for a second opinion as I m quite worried about tetanus.