diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b230b7958..b72ed86c1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-## 0.10.16-dev2
-
+## 0.10.16
 
 ### Enhancements
 
@@ -10,6 +9,8 @@
 
 ### Fixes
 
+* ***Fixes an issue that caused a partition error for some PDF's.** Fixes GH Issue 1460 by bypassing a coordinate check if an element has invalid coordinates.
+
 ## 0.10.15
 
 ### Enhancements
diff --git a/example-docs/negative-coords.pdf b/example-docs/negative-coords.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..617bd8a47
Binary files /dev/null and b/example-docs/negative-coords.pdf differ
diff --git a/test_unstructured/partition/pdf-image/test_pdf.py b/test_unstructured/partition/pdf-image/test_pdf.py
index a3209a9cf..717824823 100644
--- a/test_unstructured/partition/pdf-image/test_pdf.py
+++ b/test_unstructured/partition/pdf-image/test_pdf.py
@@ -226,6 +226,14 @@ def test_partition_pdf_with_fast_strategy(
         assert element.metadata.filename == "layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf"
 
 
+def test_partition_pdf_with_fast_neg_coordinates():
+    filename = "example-docs/negative-coords.pdf"
+    elements = pdf.partition_pdf(filename=filename, url=None, strategy="fast")
+    assert len(elements) == 5
+    assert elements[0].metadata.coordinates.points[0][0] < 0
+    assert elements[0].metadata.coordinates.points[1][0] < 0
+
+
 def test_partition_pdf_with_fast_groups_text(
     filename="example-docs/layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf",
 ):
diff --git a/unstructured/__version__.py b/unstructured/__version__.py
index b6ecb5cd2..eb57d870d 100644
--- a/unstructured/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.10.16-dev2"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.10.16"  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/unstructured/partition/pdf.py b/unstructured/partition/pdf.py
index 1cfd26425..1c451ca42 100644
--- a/unstructured/partition/pdf.py
+++ b/unstructured/partition/pdf.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from unstructured.file_utils.filetype import (
     FileType,
     add_metadata_with_filetype,
 )
-from unstructured.logger import logger
+from unstructured.logger import logger, trace_logger
 from unstructured.nlp.patterns import PARAGRAPH_PATTERN
 from unstructured.partition.common import (
     convert_to_bytes,
@@ -761,7 +761,10 @@ def check_coords_within_boundary(
         a float ranges from [0,1] to scale the horizontal (x-axis) boundary
     """
     if not coord_has_valid_points(coordinates) and not coord_has_valid_points(boundary):
-        raise ValueError("Invalid coordinates.")
+        trace_logger.detail(  # type: ignore
+            f"coordinates {coordinates} and boundary {boundary} did not pass validation",
+        )
+        return False
 
     boundary_x_min = boundary.points[0][0]
     boundary_x_max = boundary.points[2][0]