diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4548d0a3d7..ec99d8c843 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -6293,6 +6293,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "clap 4.5.1",
  "omicron-workspace-hack",
+ "sigpipe",
  "uuid 1.7.0",
 ]
 
@@ -8666,6 +8667,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "rand_core 0.6.4",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sigpipe"
+version = "0.1.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5584bfb3e0d348139d8210285e39f6d2f8a1902ac06de343e06357d1d763d8e6"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "similar"
 version = "2.4.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0d66583a82..fc63bdbec3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ sha3 = "0.10.8"
 shell-words = "1.1.0"
 signal-hook = "0.3"
 signal-hook-tokio = { version = "0.3", features = [ "futures-v0_3" ] }
+sigpipe = "0.1.3"
 similar-asserts = "1.5.0"
 sled = "0.34"
 sled-agent-client = { path = "clients/sled-agent-client" }
diff --git a/dev-tools/oxlog/Cargo.toml b/dev-tools/oxlog/Cargo.toml
index 5d7cfaf5c1..3c3d983d09 100644
--- a/dev-tools/oxlog/Cargo.toml
+++ b/dev-tools/oxlog/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ anyhow.workspace = true
 camino.workspace = true
 chrono.workspace = true
 clap.workspace = true
+sigpipe.workspace = true
 uuid.workspace = true
 omicron-workspace-hack.workspace = true
 
diff --git a/dev-tools/oxlog/src/bin/oxlog.rs b/dev-tools/oxlog/src/bin/oxlog.rs
index 88e067c382..ceeb98b3bd 100644
--- a/dev-tools/oxlog/src/bin/oxlog.rs
+++ b/dev-tools/oxlog/src/bin/oxlog.rs
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ struct FilterArgs {
 }
 
 fn main() -> Result<(), anyhow::Error> {
+    sigpipe::reset();
+
     let cli = Cli::parse();
 
     match cli.command {