diff --git a/packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.test.ts b/packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.test.ts
index 8e4c654e2e4c..bda85810fa6f 100644
--- a/packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.test.ts
+++ b/packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.test.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,88 @@
 import { it } from "@effect/vitest";
 import { describe, expect } from "vite-plus/test";
+import * as Cause from "effect/Cause";
 import * as Deferred from "effect/Deferred";
 import * as Effect from "effect/Effect";
+import * as Exit from "effect/Exit";
+import * as Fiber from "effect/Fiber";
+import * as Logger from "effect/Logger";
+import * as Scope from "effect/Scope";
 
 import { makeDrainableWorker } from "./DrainableWorker.ts";
 
+const captureErrorLogs = () => {
+  const loggedErrors: Array<unknown> = [];
+  const logger = Logger.make(({ logLevel, cause }) => {
+    if (logLevel === "Error") loggedErrors.push(Cause.squash(cause));
+  });
+  return { loggedErrors, loggerLayer: Logger.layer([logger], { mergeWithExisting: false }) };
+};
+
 describe("makeDrainableWorker", () => {
+  it.effect("logs a failed or defective item and keeps processing later items", () => {
+    const { loggedErrors, loggerLayer } = captureErrorLogs();
+
+    return Effect.scoped(
+      Effect.gen(function* () {
+        const processed: string[] = [];
+        const workerFiber = yield* Deferred.make<Fiber.Fiber<unknown, unknown>>();
+        const worker = yield* makeDrainableWorker((item: string) =>
+          Effect.gen(function* () {
+            yield* Deferred.succeed(workerFiber, yield* Effect.fiber);
+            if (item === "fail") return yield* Effect.fail("typed failure");
+            if (item === "die") return yield* Effect.die("defect");
+            if (item === "interrupt") return yield* Effect.interrupt;
+            processed.push(item);
+          }),
+        );
+
+        yield* worker.enqueue("fail");
+        yield* worker.enqueue("die");
+        yield* worker.enqueue("interrupt");
+        yield* worker.enqueue("ok");
+
+        // A stopped worker never drains; its exit settles the race instead of a hang.
+        yield* Effect.raceFirst(worker.drain, Fiber.await(yield* Deferred.await(workerFiber)));
+
+        expect(processed).toEqual(["ok"]);
+        // The item that interrupted itself was cancelled, not failed.
+        expect(loggedErrors).toEqual(["typed failure", "defect"]);
+      }),
+    ).pipe(Effect.provide(loggerLayer));
+  });
+
+  it.effect("stops quietly when its scope closes during an item", () => {
+    const { loggedErrors, loggerLayer } = captureErrorLogs();
+
+    return Effect.gen(function* () {
+      const scope = yield* Scope.make();
+      const processed: string[] = [];
+      const workerFiber = yield* Deferred.make<Fiber.Fiber<unknown, unknown>>();
+      const worker = yield* makeDrainableWorker((item: string) =>
+        Effect.gen(function* () {
+          processed.push(item);
+          yield* Deferred.succeed(workerFiber, yield* Effect.fiber);
+          return yield* Effect.never;
+        }),
+      ).pipe(Scope.provide(scope));
+
+      yield* worker.enqueue("block");
+      yield* worker.enqueue("later");
+      const fiber = yield* Deferred.await(workerFiber);
+      yield* Scope.close(scope, Exit.void);
+
+      expect(Exit.hasInterrupts(yield* Fiber.await(fiber))).toBe(true);
+      expect(processed).toEqual(["block"]);
+      expect(loggedErrors).toEqual([]);
+
+      // Queued and late items are dropped with the queue, so drain resolves at once.
+      yield* worker.enqueue("after close");
+      const drained = yield* Effect.forkChild(worker.drain, { startImmediately: true });
+      expect(drained.pollUnsafe()).toEqual(Exit.void);
+      expect(processed).toEqual(["block"]);
+    }).pipe(Effect.provide(loggerLayer));
+  });
+
   it.live("waits for work enqueued during active processing before draining", () =>
     Effect.scoped(
       Effect.gen(function* () {
diff --git a/packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.ts b/packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.ts
index de40ec5e36b8..5ec2a3f9db44 100644
--- a/packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.ts
+++ b/packages/shared/src/DrainableWorker.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
  *
  * @module DrainableWorker
  */
+import * as Cause from "effect/Cause";
 import * as Scope from "effect/Scope";
 import * as Effect from "effect/Effect";
 import * as TxQueue from "effect/TxQueue";
@@ -32,23 +33,45 @@ export interface DrainableWorker<A> {
  * Create a drainable worker that processes items from an unbounded queue.
  *
  * The worker is forked into the current scope and will be interrupted when
- * the scope closes. A finalizer shuts down the queue.
+ * the scope closes. A finalizer shuts down the queue and drops queued items,
+ * so `drain` resolves after the scope closes instead of waiting on them.
+ *
+ * An item that fails or dies is logged and skipped; the worker keeps
+ * processing later items and `drain` still resolves.
  *
  * @param process - The effect to run for each queued item.
- * @returns A `DrainableWorker` with `queue` and `drain`.
+ * @returns A `DrainableWorker` with `enqueue` and `drain`.
  */
 export const makeDrainableWorker = <A, E, R>(
   process: (item: A) => Effect.Effect<void, E, R>,
 ): Effect.Effect<DrainableWorker<A>, never, Scope.Scope | R> =>
   Effect.gen(function* () {
-    const queue = yield* Effect.acquireRelease(TxQueue.unbounded<A>(), TxQueue.shutdown);
     const outstanding = yield* TxRef.make(0);
+    const queue = yield* Effect.acquireRelease(TxQueue.unbounded<A>(), (queue) =>
+      // Uncount only the dropped items: an item still running uncounts itself,
+      // even when a parallel scope closes it after this finalizer.
+      TxQueue.clear(queue).pipe(
+        Effect.flatMap((dropped) => TxRef.update(outstanding, (n) => n - dropped.length)),
+        Effect.andThen(TxQueue.shutdown(queue)),
+        Effect.tx,
+      ),
+    );
 
     yield* TxQueue.take(queue).pipe(
-      Effect.tap((a) =>
-        Effect.ensuring(
-          process(a),
-          TxRef.update(outstanding, (n) => n - 1),
+      Effect.flatMap((a) =>
+        // `suspend` turns a `process` that throws while building its effect
+        // into this item's defect instead of the loop's.
+        Effect.suspend(() => process(a)).pipe(
+          // Only the item's own failure, defect, or interruption lands here and
+          // the loop continues; interrupting the worker fiber still stops it.
+          // Callers treat an item that only interrupted itself as cancelled,
+          // not failed.
+          Effect.catchCause((cause) =>
+            Cause.hasInterruptsOnly(cause)
+              ? Effect.void
+              : Effect.logError("DrainableWorker item failed", cause),
+          ),
+          Effect.ensuring(TxRef.update(outstanding, (n) => n - 1)),
         ),
       ),
       Effect.forever,
@@ -56,13 +79,14 @@ export const makeDrainableWorker = <A, E, R>(
     );
 
     const drain: DrainableWorker<A>["drain"] = TxRef.get(outstanding).pipe(
-      Effect.tap((n) => (n > 0 ? Effect.txRetry : Effect.void)),
+      Effect.flatMap((n) => (n > 0 ? Effect.txRetry : Effect.void)),
       Effect.tx,
     );
 
     const enqueue = (element: A): Effect.Effect<boolean, never, never> =>
       TxQueue.offer(queue, element).pipe(
-        Effect.tap(() => TxRef.update(outstanding, (n) => n + 1)),
+        // A shut-down queue refuses the item, so it is never processed.
+        Effect.tap((offered) => (offered ? TxRef.update(outstanding, (n) => n + 1) : Effect.void)),
         Effect.tx,
       );