Las Vegas parents allege their son received severe heat burns during football practice

A high school football player in Nevada came home with severe burns on his hands. The 16-year-old allegedly suffered these while being punished during football practice.

The accusation made by one set of Spring Valley High School (Las Vegas) parents claims “that their son and some members of the varsity football team were ordered to crawl on artificial turf as punishment for not wearing their kneepads properly” (h/t 8 News Now, a CBS station in Las Vegas).

The burns were allegedly the result of a punishment that their son, along with several other players received, which involved them crawling on artificial turf in the middle of the afternoon. The supposed infraction? Well, according to 8 News Now it is not wearing their kneepads properly.

The parents say that their son came home from football practice with his hands bandaged. He was then taken to a nearby urgent care facility where he received a diagnosis of friction burns.

A friction burn is exactly that, a wound caused by a “hybrid of blunt trauma and heat that is worsened by high speed.”

Spring Valley opens the season on Aug. 23 at Cimarron-Memorial.