diff --git a/src/crawler.ts b/src/crawler.ts
index 91a7d80c7..a0f8e9b68 100644
--- a/src/crawler.ts
+++ b/src/crawler.ts
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import { Screenshots } from "./util/screenshots.js";
 import { parseArgs } from "./util/argParser.js";
 import { initRedis } from "./util/redis.js";
 import { logger, formatErr } from "./util/logger.js";
-import { WorkerOpts, WorkerState, runWorkers } from "./util/worker.js";
+import { WorkerState, runWorkers } from "./util/worker.js";
 import { sleep, timedRun, secondsElapsed } from "./util/timing.js";
 import { collectAllFileSources } from "./util/file_reader.js";
 
@@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ self.__bx_behaviors.selectMainBehavior();
     await this.checkLimits();
   }
 
-  async teardownPage({ workerid }: WorkerOpts) {
+  async teardownPage({ workerid }: WorkerState) {
     if (this.screencaster) {
       await this.screencaster.stopById(workerid);
     }
diff --git a/src/util/state.ts b/src/util/state.ts
index e084992f3..c75e9487c 100644
--- a/src/util/state.ts
+++ b/src/util/state.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { Redis, Result, Callback } from "ioredis";
+import { v4 as uuidv4 } from "uuid";
 
 import { logger } from "./logger.js";
 
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ export class PageState {
 
   workerid!: WorkerId;
 
-  pageid?: string;
+  pageid: string;
   title?: string;
   mime?: string;
   ts?: Date;
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@ export class PageState {
     this.seedId = redisData.seedId;
     this.depth = redisData.depth;
     this.extraHops = redisData.extraHops || 0;
+    this.pageid = uuidv4();
     this.status = 0;
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/util/worker.ts b/src/util/worker.ts
index e05dad308..e8b21247f 100644
--- a/src/util/worker.ts
+++ b/src/util/worker.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 import os from "os";
 
-import { v4 as uuidv4 } from "uuid";
-
 import { logger, formatErr } from "./logger.js";
 import { sleep, timedRun } from "./timing.js";
 import { Recorder } from "./recorder.js";
@@ -54,9 +52,7 @@ export async function runWorkers(
 }
 
 // ===========================================================================
-// TODO: Fix this the next time the file is edited.
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
-export type WorkerOpts = Record<string, any> & {
+type WorkerOpts = {
   page: Page;
   cdp: CDPSession;
   workerid: WorkerId;
@@ -306,16 +302,12 @@ export class PageWorker {
   async timedCrawlPage(opts: WorkerState) {
     const workerid = this.id;
     const { data } = opts;
-    const { url } = data;
+    const { url, pageid } = data;
 
     logger.info("Starting page", { workerid, page: url }, "worker");
 
     this.logDetails = { page: url, workerid };
 
-    // set new page id
-    const pageid = uuidv4();
-    data.pageid = pageid;
-
     if (this.recorder) {
       this.recorder.startPage({ pageid, url });
     }