diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 050e6de3..1328eea2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ fabric.properties
 .env
 .env_localtest
 .env_dev
+.env_prod
 src/frontend_celery/logs
 /src/frontend_celery/webapp/static/files/
 classified_structural_variants
diff --git a/src/frontend_celery/webapp/utils/upload_status_checker.py b/src/frontend_celery/webapp/utils/upload_status_checker.py
index 6a07d5b3..d6b5f513 100644
--- a/src/frontend_celery/webapp/utils/upload_status_checker.py
+++ b/src/frontend_celery/webapp/utils/upload_status_checker.py
@@ -78,10 +78,14 @@ def check_update_heredicare_status(variant_id, publish_queue_ids_oi: list, conn:
         heredicare_queue_entries = conn.get_heredicare_queue_entries(publish_queue_ids_oi, variant_id)
 
         # if an upload was successful update the respective needs_upload field
+        needs_heredicare_upload = False
         for heredicare_queue_entry in heredicare_queue_entries:
-            if heredicare_queue_entry[1] in ["success"]:
-                consensus_classification_id = heredicare_queue_entry[8]
-                conn.update_consensus_classification_needs_heredicare_upload(consensus_classification_id)
+            if heredicare_queue_entry[1] in ["error"]:
+                needs_heredicare_upload = True
+
+        if not needs_heredicare_upload:
+            consensus_classification_id = heredicare_queue_entry[8]
+            conn.update_consensus_classification_needs_heredicare_upload(consensus_classification_id)
 
     return heredicare_queue_entries