diff --git a/pdelfin/beakerpipeline.py b/pdelfin/beakerpipeline.py
index 3b52ae4..ed33620 100644
--- a/pdelfin/beakerpipeline.py
+++ b/pdelfin/beakerpipeline.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ from functools import partial, cache
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from typing import Optional, Tuple, List, Dict, Set
 from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor, ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed
+from concurrent.futures.process import BrokenProcessPool
 
 from pdelfin.s3_queue import S3WorkQueue, WorkItem
 from pdelfin.s3_utils import expand_s3_glob, get_s3_bytes, get_s3_bytes_with_backoff, parse_s3_path, download_zstd_csv, upload_zstd_csv, download_directory
@@ -265,6 +266,13 @@ async def process_pdf(args, session: httpx.AsyncClient, worker_id: int, pdf_s3_p
 
             return build_dolma_document(pdf_s3_path, page_results)
         except Exception as e:
+            # Check for ExceptionGroup with BrokenProcessPool
+            if isinstance(e, ExceptionGroup):
+                broken_pool, other = e.split(BrokenProcessPool)
+                if broken_pool is not None:  # Found at least one BrokenProcessPool
+                    logger.critical("Encountered BrokenProcessPool, exiting process.")
+                    sys.exit(1)
+
             logger.exception(f"Exception in process_pdf for {pdf_s3_path}: {e}")
             # You can't build a dolma doc with even 1 failed page, so just get out of here
             # However, you don't want to propagate an exception higher up and cancel the entire work_group
diff --git a/pdelfin/version.py b/pdelfin/version.py
index 58ee23d..9d24ad4 100644
--- a/pdelfin/version.py
+++ b/pdelfin/version.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ _MAJOR = "0"
 _MINOR = "1"
 # On main and in a nightly release the patch should be one ahead of the last
 # released build.
-_PATCH = "44"
+_PATCH = "45"
 # This is mainly for nightly builds which have the suffix ".dev$DATE". See
 # https://semver.org/#is-v123-a-semantic-version for the semantics.
 _SUFFIX = ""