2 space launch workers burned at Calif. base

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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — Two workers for a company that launches spacecraft for the U.S. government were seriously injured in an electrical explosion at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast.

The United Launch Alliance said in a statement that the two employees were transferred Monday to a Los Angeles hospital that specializes in treating burn victims.

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