Business Spotlight: Heavy Duty Determination

SBJ PHOTO BY WES HAMILTON

All Shane Ballard remembers from the explosion is flying through the air and hitting the ground outside of the Safari Off-Road Inc. shop in Nixa. It was a bitter-cold winter day on Feb. 20, 2008, and Ballard was in a loft storage room with an employee when the shop’s heater exploded, shooting both men into the air and out of the structure. 

“I remember going up and ended up on the grass outside,” says Ballard, the business owner. “The other guy hit the rafter first.”

Read the article in the Springfield Business Journal

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