diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bbefc6fd34..2c33c12b7b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@
   - Fixed UDTF ingestion failure with `pyodbc` driver caused by unprocessed row data.
   - Fixed SQL Server query input failure due to incorrect select query generation.
   - Fixed UDTF ingestion not preserving column nullability in the output schema.
+  - Fixed an issue that caused the program to hang during multithreaded Parquet based ingestion when a data fetching error occurred.
 
 #### Improvements
 
diff --git a/src/snowflake/snowpark/_internal/data_source/utils.py b/src/snowflake/snowpark/_internal/data_source/utils.py
index f3fbebbd71..58dc17bcaa 100644
--- a/src/snowflake/snowpark/_internal/data_source/utils.py
+++ b/src/snowflake/snowpark/_internal/data_source/utils.py
@@ -308,6 +308,9 @@ def worker_process(
 ):
     """Worker process that fetches data from multiple partitions"""
     while True:
+        if stop_event and stop_event.is_set():
+            # other worker has set the stop event signalling me to stop, exit gracefully
+            break
         try:
             # Get item from queue with timeout
             partition_idx, query = partition_queue.get(timeout=1.0)
diff --git a/tests/integ/datasource/test_oracledb.py b/tests/integ/datasource/test_oracledb.py
index 6b5178590c..ea8457b942 100644
--- a/tests/integ/datasource/test_oracledb.py
+++ b/tests/integ/datasource/test_oracledb.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import math
 import sys
 from collections import namedtuple
+from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import pytest
 
@@ -334,3 +335,32 @@ def test_oracledb_driver_udtf_class_builder():
     # Verify we got data with the right structure (2 columns)
     assert len(column_result_rows) > 0
     assert len(column_result_rows[0]) == 2  # Two columns
+
+
+def test_dbapi_no_hang_on_exit_when_worker_error(session):
+    """
+    Test that the dbapi reader does not hang on exit when a worker raises an error
+
+    Ideally the test should be put in test_data_source_api.py,
+    however, reproducing using SQLite is hard to achieve while pure mocking gets the test code too complex.
+    Hence, we use Oracledb here which can repro the issue reliably without the fix.
+    """
+    with patch(
+        "snowflake.snowpark._internal.data_source.drivers.base_driver.BaseDriver.data_source_data_to_pandas_df"
+    ) as mock_data_source_data_to_pandas_df:
+        # Mock the data_source_data_to_pandas_df method to raise RuntimeError
+        mock_data_source_data_to_pandas_df.side_effect = RuntimeError(
+            "conversion error"
+        )
+
+        # Expect the dbapi call to raise a SnowparkDataframeReaderException due to the worker error
+        with pytest.raises(SnowparkDataframeReaderException, match="conversion error"):
+            session.read.dbapi(
+                create_connection_oracledb,
+                table=ORACLEDB_TABLE_NAME,
+                column="ID",
+                lower_bound=0,
+                upper_bound=100,
+                num_partitions=10,
+                max_workers=2,
+            )