diff --git a/packages/producer/src/services/render/capturePlan.test.ts b/packages/producer/src/services/render/capturePlan.test.ts
index a8b8c0ac0..8e8352de4 100644
--- a/packages/producer/src/services/render/capturePlan.test.ts
+++ b/packages/producer/src/services/render/capturePlan.test.ts
@@ -140,6 +140,28 @@ describe("CapturePlan", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it("forces screenshot on a disk-plan drawElement verify failure (PRINFRA-352 recovery)", () => {
+    // Parallel disk workers under the explicit fast-capture opt-in verify their
+    // own captured samples; a breach must re-render the DISK plan on the
+    // screenshot baseline (not throw, and not stay on drawElement).
+    const disk = createCapturePlan({
+      workerCount: 2,
+      forceScreenshot: false,
+      useStreamingEncode: false,
+      useLayeredComposite: false,
+      usePageSideCompositing: false,
+      hasHdrContent: false,
+      needsAlpha: false,
+    });
+    const next = replanAfterFailure(disk, { kind: "draw_element_verification" });
+    expect(next).toMatchObject({
+      kind: "sdr_disk",
+      forceScreenshot: true,
+      forceParallelStream: false,
+      workerCount: 2,
+    });
+  });
+
   it("rejects a streaming transition from a non-streaming plan", () => {
     const disk = createCapturePlan({
       workerCount: 2,
diff --git a/packages/producer/src/services/render/stages/captureStreamingStage.ts b/packages/producer/src/services/render/stages/captureStreamingStage.ts
index 09a87aa86..7a4fe6d95 100644
--- a/packages/producer/src/services/render/stages/captureStreamingStage.ts
+++ b/packages/producer/src/services/render/stages/captureStreamingStage.ts
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ import {
   executeParallelCapture,
   getCapturePerfSummary,
   psnrDb,
+  resolveDeVerifyMinDb,
   recaptureDrawElementFrameForVerify,
   completeDeferredDrawElementInit,
   initializeSession,
@@ -257,14 +258,14 @@ function createDrainFrameGuard(args: {
   // check stops meaning anything); above ~60dB natural DE-vs-screenshot
   // encoder differences (~45dB+) would force a screenshot fallback on every
   // verified render. Out-of-range or malformed values fall back to 32.
-  const verifyMinDbRaw = Number(process.env.HF_DE_VERIFY_MIN_DB ?? "32");
-  const verifyMinDb =
-    Number.isFinite(verifyMinDbRaw) && verifyMinDbRaw >= 10 && verifyMinDbRaw <= 60
-      ? verifyMinDbRaw
-      : 32;
-  if (process.env.HF_DE_VERIFY_MIN_DB !== undefined && verifyMinDb !== verifyMinDbRaw) {
-    log.warn("[Render] HF_DE_VERIFY_MIN_DB out of range [10,60]; using 32", {
-      raw: process.env.HF_DE_VERIFY_MIN_DB,
+  // Single-sourced clamp (psnr.ts) so the disk and streaming verify paths can
+  // never apply different PSNR floors to the same composition. The warn stays
+  // here because only this path has a logger in scope.
+  const verifyMinDb = resolveDeVerifyMinDb();
+  const rawEnv = process.env.HF_DE_VERIFY_MIN_DB;
+  if (rawEnv !== undefined && Number(rawEnv) !== verifyMinDb) {
+    log.warn(`[Render] HF_DE_VERIFY_MIN_DB out of range [10,60]; using ${verifyMinDb}`, {
+      raw: rawEnv,
     });
   }
   const sizes: number[] = [];
diff --git a/packages/producer/src/services/renderOrchestrator.ts b/packages/producer/src/services/renderOrchestrator.ts
index d903f36c2..362d18c20 100644
--- a/packages/producer/src/services/renderOrchestrator.ts
+++ b/packages/producer/src/services/renderOrchestrator.ts
@@ -1018,6 +1018,20 @@ export async function executeDiskCaptureWithAdaptiveRetry(options: {
       if (failure.kind === "cancelled") {
         throw error;
       }
+      // A drawElement self-verify breach (a parallel disk worker's sampled
+      // frame diverged from its pre-injection ground truth) is a CORRECTNESS
+      // failure, not a missing-frame one: the damaged frames are written
+      // complete to disk, so the presence/size-only findMissingFrameRanges
+      // below would count them present and wrongly return success — shipping
+      // the exact compositor damage this verify exists to catch. Rethrow so
+      // the orchestrator's disk-stage screenshot retry fires (mirrors the
+      // `cancelled` guard; a worker-halving retry here would only re-run
+      // drawElement and re-damage). Structural detection walks the aggregated
+      // CaptureFailure → worker CaptureFailure → DrawElementVerificationError
+      // cause chain.
+      if (isDrawElementVerificationError(error)) {
+        throw error;
+      }
       const remaining = findMissingFrameRanges(
         options.totalFrames,
         options.framesDir,