diff --git a/crawler.js b/crawler.js
index d19546c14..40d001d68 100644
--- a/crawler.js
+++ b/crawler.js
@@ -679,6 +679,18 @@ self.__bx_behaviors.selectMainBehavior();
     process.exit(0);
   }
 
+  async isCrawlRunning() {
+    if (this.interrupted) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    if (await this.crawlState.isCrawlStopped()) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    return true;
+  }
+
   async crawl() {
     if (this.params.healthCheckPort) {
       this.healthChecker = new HealthChecker(this.params.healthCheckPort, this.params.workers);
diff --git a/util/timing.js b/util/timing.js
index ddda4ea73..926d0402a 100644
--- a/util/timing.js
+++ b/util/timing.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { logger, errJSON } from "./logger.js";
+import { logger } from "./logger.js";
 
 export function sleep(seconds) {
   return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, seconds * 1000));
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ export function timedRun(promise, seconds, message="Promise timed out", logDetai
       if (err == "timeout reached") {
         logger.error(message, {"seconds": seconds, ...logDetails}, context);
       } else {
-        logger.error("Unknown exception", {...errJSON(err), ...logDetails}, context);
+        //logger.error("Unknown exception", {...errJSON(err), ...logDetails}, context);
+        throw err;
       }
     });
 }
diff --git a/util/worker.js b/util/worker.js
index ae3c4484c..2f61b754f 100644
--- a/util/worker.js
+++ b/util/worker.js
@@ -94,10 +94,12 @@ export class PageWorker
     this.reuseCount = 1;
     const workerid = this.id;
 
-    while (true) {
+    let retry = 0;
+
+    while (await this.crawler.isCrawlRunning()) {
       try {
         logger.debug("Getting page in new window", {workerid}, "worker");
-        const { page, cdp } = await timedRun(
+        const result = await timedRun(
           this.crawler.browser.newWindowPageWithCDP(),
           NEW_WINDOW_TIMEOUT,
           "New Window Timed Out",
@@ -105,6 +107,12 @@ export class PageWorker
           "worker"
         );
 
+        if (!result) {
+          throw new Error("timed out");
+        }
+
+        const { page, cdp } = result;
+
         this.page = page;
         this.cdp = cdp;
         this.opts = {page: this.page, cdp: this.cdp, workerid};
@@ -128,8 +136,14 @@ export class PageWorker
 
       } catch (err) {
         logger.warn("Error getting new page", {"workerid": this.id, ...errJSON(err)}, "worker");
+        retry++;
+
+        if (retry >= MAX_REUSE) {
+          logger.fatal("Unable to get new page, browser likely crashed");
+        }
+
         await sleep(0.5);
-        logger.warn("Retry getting new page");
+        logger.warn("Retrying getting new page");
 
         if (this.crawler.healthChecker) {
           this.crawler.healthChecker.incError();
@@ -180,7 +194,7 @@ export class PageWorker
   async runLoop() {
     const crawlState = this.crawler.crawlState;
 
-    while (!this.crawler.interrupted && !await crawlState.isCrawlStopped()) {
+    while (await this.crawler.isCrawlRunning()) {
       const data = await crawlState.nextFromQueue();
 
       // see if any work data in the queue