Peruvian regulations require mining companies to give every worker an annual medical exam. If any lung disease is detected…the company must transfer the sick worker to a job free of…risks...Daniel Vargas, Shougang's medical services director at the mine in San Juan de Marcona, Peru, says…Shougang has never found widespread cases of pneumoconiosis in that mine…Peru's mining regulator…says [a]n inspection in June 2006 found…12 percent, had pneumoconiosis. The agency fined Shougang…$45,030…saying the company violated regulations by allowing sick people to work in its mines and processing plants…Shougang...responded…by disagreeing with their medical findings. Shougang [said]...it knew of just one case of pneumoconiosis at the time…[One worker said] ``They do everything they can to deny we are sick''...Six workers have died in accidents at Shougang's mine and processing plants since 2000...