diff --git a/plugins/search-backend-node/src/indexing/BatchSearchEngineIndexer.ts b/plugins/search-backend-node/src/indexing/BatchSearchEngineIndexer.ts
index 0824f0ab48..043e2c1953 100644
--- a/plugins/search-backend-node/src/indexing/BatchSearchEngineIndexer.ts
+++ b/plugins/search-backend-node/src/indexing/BatchSearchEngineIndexer.ts
@@ -110,12 +110,13 @@ export abstract class BatchSearchEngineIndexer extends Writable {
    * @internal
    */
   async _final(done: (error?: Error | null) => void) {
-    const maybeError = await this.initialized;
-    if (maybeError) {
-      done(maybeError);
-      return;
-    }
     try {
+      const maybeError = await this.initialized;
+      if (maybeError) {
+        done(maybeError);
+        return;
+      }
+
       // Index any remaining documents.
       if (this.currentBatch.length) {
         await this.index(this.currentBatch);