diff --git a/api/gitops/workflows/delete_test.go b/api/gitops/workflows/delete_test.go
index 8a1333f50c..afc72e0c59 100644
--- a/api/gitops/workflows/delete_test.go
+++ b/api/gitops/workflows/delete_test.go
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 package workflows
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"testing"
 
 	portainer "github.com/portainer/portainer/api"
+	"github.com/portainer/portainer/api/dataservices"
 	"github.com/portainer/portainer/api/datastore"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -45,6 +47,18 @@ func TestDeleteIfSingleArtifact_MultipleArtifactsAreKept(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 }
 
+// TestDeleteIfSingleArtifact_ReadErrorPropagates covers the branch where the Workflow lookup
+// fails for a reason other than not-found (e.g. a corrupt record); that error must still
+// surface to the caller instead of being swallowed alongside the not-found case.
+func TestDeleteIfSingleArtifact_ReadErrorPropagates(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	wantErr := errors.New("boom")
+	store := erroringWorkflowStore{err: wantErr}
+
+	err := DeleteIfSingleArtifact(store, 1)
+	require.ErrorIs(t, err, wantErr)
+}
+
 func TestDeleteIfSingleArtifact_SingleArtifactIsDeleted(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	_, store := datastore.MustNewTestStore(t, false, true)
@@ -61,3 +75,22 @@ func TestDeleteIfSingleArtifact_SingleArtifactIsDeleted(t *testing.T) {
 	_, err = store.Workflow().Read(wf.ID)
 	require.Error(t, err)
 }
+
+// erroringWorkflowStore is a workflowDeleteStore whose Workflow().Read always fails with a
+// non-not-found error, to exercise the error-propagation branch of DeleteIfSingleArtifact.
+type erroringWorkflowStore struct {
+	err error
+}
+
+func (s erroringWorkflowStore) Workflow() dataservices.WorkflowService {
+	return erroringWorkflowService{err: s.err}
+}
+
+type erroringWorkflowService struct {
+	dataservices.WorkflowService
+	err error
+}
+
+func (s erroringWorkflowService) Read(portainer.WorkflowID) (*portainer.Workflow, error) {
+	return nil, s.err
+}