Survival of right of action

S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-3760, under Title 58, Chapter 17.

S.C. Code Ann. § 58-17-3760

Any right of action given by this article to a person suffering injury shall survive to his personal representatives, for the benefit of (a) the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee, (b) if none, such employee's parents and (c) if none, then of the next of kin of such employee. But in such case there shall be only one recovery for the same injury.