diff --git a/src/test/reporters/html.ts b/src/test/reporters/html.ts
index 06ad68a93d..91028169af 100644
--- a/src/test/reporters/html.ts
+++ b/src/test/reporters/html.ts
@@ -229,22 +229,28 @@ class HtmlReporter {
     for (const attachment of result.attachments) {
       if (attachment.path) {
         const sha1 = calculateSha1(attachment.path) + path.extname(attachment.path);
-        fs.copyFileSync(attachment.path, path.join(this._resourcesFolder, sha1));
-        attachments.push({
-          ...attachment,
-          body: undefined,
-          sha1
-        });
+        try {
+          fs.copyFileSync(attachment.path, path.join(this._resourcesFolder, sha1));
+          attachments.push({
+            ...attachment,
+            body: undefined,
+            sha1
+          });
+        } catch (e) {
+        }
       } else if (attachment.body && isTextAttachment(attachment.contentType)) {
         attachments.push({ ...attachment, body: attachment.body.toString() });
       } else {
         const sha1 = calculateSha1(attachment.body!) + '.dat';
-        fs.writeFileSync(path.join(this._resourcesFolder, sha1), attachment.body);
-        attachments.push({
-          ...attachment,
-          body: undefined,
-          sha1
-        });
+        try {
+          fs.writeFileSync(path.join(this._resourcesFolder, sha1), attachment.body);
+          attachments.push({
+            ...attachment,
+            body: undefined,
+            sha1
+          });
+        } catch (e) {
+        }
       }
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/playwright-test/html-reporter.spec.ts b/tests/playwright-test/html-reporter.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cf382bb8c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/playwright-test/html-reporter.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { test, expect } from './playwright-test-fixtures';
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+const kHTMLReporterPath = path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', 'lib', 'test', 'reporters', 'html.js');
+
+test('should not throw when attachment is missing', async ({ runInlineTest }) => {
+  const result = await runInlineTest({
+    'playwright.config.ts': `
+      module.exports = { preserveOutput: 'failures-only' };
+    `,
+    'a.test.js': `
+      const { test } = pwt;
+      test('passes', async ({ page }, testInfo) => {
+        const screenshot = testInfo.outputPath('screenshot.png');
+        await page.screenshot({ path: screenshot });
+        testInfo.attachments.push({ name: 'screenshot', path: screenshot, contentType: 'image/png' });
+      });
+    `,
+  }, { reporter: 'dot,' + kHTMLReporterPath });
+  expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0);
+  expect(result.passed).toBe(1);
+});