diff --git a/redis_consumer/consumers/base_consumer.py b/redis_consumer/consumers/base_consumer.py
index 54c370cf..c5ceca95 100644
--- a/redis_consumer/consumers/base_consumer.py
+++ b/redis_consumer/consumers/base_consumer.py
@@ -116,8 +116,13 @@ def get_redis_hash(self):
             self.logger.warning('Found invalid hash in %s: `%s` with '
                                 'hvals: %s', self.queue, redis_hash,
                                 self.redis.hgetall(redis_hash))
-            # self.redis.lrem(self.processing_queue, 1, redis_hash)
-            self._put_back_hash(redis_hash)
+            # self._put_back_hash(redis_hash)
+            self.redis.lrem(self.processing_queue, 1, redis_hash)
+            # Update redis with failed status
+            self.update_key(redis_hash, {
+                'status': self.failed_status,
+                'reason': 'Invalid filetype for "%s" job.'.format(self.queue),
+            })
 
     def _handle_error(self, err, redis_hash):
         """Update redis with failure information, and log errors.
diff --git a/redis_consumer/consumers/base_consumer_test.py b/redis_consumer/consumers/base_consumer_test.py
index b3be6527..412fd791 100644
--- a/redis_consumer/consumers/base_consumer_test.py
+++ b/redis_consumer/consumers/base_consumer_test.py
@@ -194,8 +194,9 @@ def test_get_redis_hash(self):
 
         rhash = consumer.get_redis_hash()
         assert rhash == items[0]
-        assert redis_client.work_queue == items[1:]
-        assert redis_client.processing_queue == items[0:1]
+        assert not redis_client.work_queue
+        assert len(redis_client.processing_queue)
+        assert redis_client.processing_queue == [rhash]
 
     def test_purge_processing_queue(self):
         queue_name = 'q'