diff --git a/services/harmony/app/backends/workflow-orchestration/work-item-updates.ts b/services/harmony/app/backends/workflow-orchestration/work-item-updates.ts
index d3c2ed194..dec76922a 100644
--- a/services/harmony/app/backends/workflow-orchestration/work-item-updates.ts
+++ b/services/harmony/app/backends/workflow-orchestration/work-item-updates.ts
@@ -655,10 +655,7 @@ export async function processWorkItem(
   let jobSaveStartTime;
   let didCreateWorkItem = false;
 
-  // TODO HARMONY-1995 add status === WorkItemStatus.WARNING here
-  if (status === WorkItemStatus.SUCCESSFUL) {
-    logger.info(`Updating work item ${workItemID} to ${status}`);
-  }
+  logger.info(`Received update for work item ${workItemID} to ${status}`);
 
   try {
     // lock the work item so we can update it - need to do this after locking jobs table above
@@ -911,18 +908,22 @@ export async function processWorkItems(
         'HWIUWJI.Job.byJobID',
         logger))(tx, jobID, false, false, true);
 
-      const thisStep: WorkflowStep = await (await logAsyncExecutionTime(
-        getWorkflowStepByJobIdStepIndex,
-        'HWIUWJI.getWorkflowStepByJobIdStepIndex',
-        logger))(tx, jobID, workflowStepIndex);
-
-      const lastIndex = items.length - 1;
-      for (let index = 0; index < items.length; index++) {
-        const { preprocessResult, update } = items[index];
-        if (index < lastIndex) {
-          await processWorkItem(tx, preprocessResult, job, update, logger, false, thisStep);
-        } else {
-          await processWorkItem(tx, preprocessResult, job, update, logger, true, thisStep);
+      if (job.hasTerminalStatus()) {
+        logger.warn(`Ignoring work item updates for job ${jobID} in terminal state ${job.status}.`);
+      } else {
+        const thisStep: WorkflowStep = await (await logAsyncExecutionTime(
+          getWorkflowStepByJobIdStepIndex,
+          'HWIUWJI.getWorkflowStepByJobIdStepIndex',
+          logger))(tx, jobID, workflowStepIndex);
+
+        const lastIndex = items.length - 1;
+        for (let index = 0; index < items.length; index++) {
+          const { preprocessResult, update } = items[index];
+          if (index < lastIndex) {
+            await processWorkItem(tx, preprocessResult, job, update, logger, false, thisStep);
+          } else {
+            await processWorkItem(tx, preprocessResult, job, update, logger, true, thisStep);
+          }
         }
       }
     });
diff --git a/services/harmony/app/models/job.ts b/services/harmony/app/models/job.ts
index e6c4f8e0c..0ad4f90d9 100644
--- a/services/harmony/app/models/job.ts
+++ b/services/harmony/app/models/job.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { createPublicPermalink } from '../frontends/service-results';
 import {
   CmrPermission, CmrPermissionsMap, CmrTagKeys, getCollectionsByIds, getPermissions,
 } from '../util/cmr';
-import { Transaction } from '../util/db';
+import db, { Transaction } from '../util/db';
 import env from '../util/env';
 import { ConflictError } from '../util/errors';
 import { removeEmptyProperties } from '../util/object';
@@ -337,6 +337,21 @@ async function getUniqueProviderIds(tx: Transaction): Promise<string[]> {
   return results.map((job) => job.provider_id);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Get the job status for the given job ID
+ *
+ * @param jobID - the job ID
+ * @returns the job status for the given job ID
+ */
+export async function getJobStatusForJobID(jobID: string): Promise<JobStatus> {
+  return (
+    await db('jobs')
+      .select('status')
+      .where({ jobID })
+      .first()
+  )?.status;
+}
+
 /**
  * Sets the fields on the where clauses (see JobQuery) to be prefixed with a table name to avoid
  * ambiguities when joining with other tables
diff --git a/services/harmony/test/geojson-normalizer.ts b/services/harmony/test/geojson-normalizer.ts
index 5dc938167..ae0b24b76 100644
--- a/services/harmony/test/geojson-normalizer.ts
+++ b/services/harmony/test/geojson-normalizer.ts
@@ -514,7 +514,6 @@ describe('convertPointsToPolygons', () => {
     const expectedOutputJson = fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, `resources/${expectedOutputFile}.geojson`), 'utf8');
 
     const normalizedGeoJson = convertPointsToPolygons(testGeoJson);
-    console.log(`${JSON.stringify(normalizedGeoJson, null, 2)}`);
     it('should convert Points to Polygons', function () {
       expect(normalizedGeoJson.features[0].geometry.type).to.equal('Polygon');
       expect(JSON.stringify(normalizedGeoJson, null, 2)).to.eql(expectedOutputJson);
@@ -530,7 +529,6 @@ describe('convertPointsToPolygons', () => {
     const expectedOutputJson = fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, `resources/${expectedOutputFile}.geojson`), 'utf8');
 
     const normalizedGeoJson = convertPointsToPolygons(testGeoJson);
-    console.log(`${JSON.stringify(normalizedGeoJson, null, 2)}`);
     it('should convert MultiPoints to MultiPolygons', function () {
       expect(normalizedGeoJson.features[0].geometry.type).to.equal('MultiPolygon');
       expect(JSON.stringify(normalizedGeoJson, null, 2)).to.eql(expectedOutputJson);
diff --git a/services/work-updater/app/workers/updater.ts b/services/work-updater/app/workers/updater.ts
index fa44ec8b4..0dfd16d69 100644
--- a/services/work-updater/app/workers/updater.ts
+++ b/services/work-updater/app/workers/updater.ts
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 import { Logger } from 'winston';
+
 import {
-  WorkItemUpdateQueueItem,
-  handleWorkItemUpdate,
-  preprocessWorkItem,
-  processWorkItems } from '../../../harmony/app/backends/workflow-orchestration/work-item-updates';
+  handleWorkItemUpdate, preprocessWorkItem, processWorkItems, WorkItemUpdateQueueItem,
+} from '../../../harmony/app/backends/workflow-orchestration/work-item-updates';
+import { getJobStatusForJobID, terminalStates } from '../../../harmony/app/models/job';
 import { getJobIdForWorkItem } from '../../../harmony/app/models/work-item';
+import { getWorkflowStepByJobIdStepIndex } from '../../../harmony/app/models/workflow-steps';
+import db from '../../../harmony/app/util/db';
 import { default as defaultLogger } from '../../../harmony/app/util/log';
+import { logAsyncExecutionTime } from '../../../harmony/app/util/log-execution';
 import { WorkItemQueueType } from '../../../harmony/app/util/queue/queue';
 import { getQueueForType } from '../../../harmony/app/util/queue/queue-factory';
 import sleep from '../../../harmony/app/util/sleep';
 import { Worker } from '../../../harmony/app/workers/worker';
 import env from '../util/env';
-import { logAsyncExecutionTime } from '../../../harmony/app/util/log-execution';
-import { getWorkflowStepByJobIdStepIndex } from '../../../harmony/app/models/workflow-steps';
-import db from '../../../harmony/app/util/db';
 
 /**
  * Group work item updates by its workflow step and return the grouped work item updates
@@ -105,11 +105,16 @@ export async function handleBatchWorkItemUpdates(
     }, {});
   // process each job's updates
   for (const jobID in jobUpdates) {
-    const startTime = Date.now();
-    logger.debug(`Processing ${jobUpdates[jobID].length} work item updates for job ${jobID}`);
-    await handleBatchWorkItemUpdatesWithJobId(jobID, jobUpdates[jobID], logger);
-    const endTime = Date.now();
-    logger.debug(`Processing ${jobUpdates[jobID].length} work item updates for job ${jobID} took ${endTime - startTime} ms`);
+    const jobStatus = await getJobStatusForJobID(jobID);
+    if (terminalStates.includes(jobStatus)) {
+      logger.warn(`Ignoring work item updates for job ${jobID} in terminal state ${jobStatus}.`);
+    } else {
+      const startTime = Date.now();
+      logger.debug(`Processing ${jobUpdates[jobID].length} work item updates for job ${jobID}`);
+      await handleBatchWorkItemUpdatesWithJobId(jobID, jobUpdates[jobID], logger);
+      const endTime = Date.now();
+      logger.debug(`Processing ${jobUpdates[jobID].length} work item updates for job ${jobID} took ${endTime - startTime} ms`);
+    }
   }
 }