diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 13924a31..b7d263a2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "dataops-testgen"
-version = "5.33.2"
+version = "5.33.3"
 description = "DataKitchen's Data Quality DataOps TestGen"
 authors = [
     { "name" = "DataKitchen, Inc.", "email" = "info@datakitchen.io" },
diff --git a/testgen/__main__.py b/testgen/__main__.py
index 3b8d7f12..a1ea67a1 100644
--- a/testgen/__main__.py
+++ b/testgen/__main__.py
@@ -146,12 +146,16 @@ def _install_shutdown_handler(handler) -> None:
 
 
 def _forward_signal_to_child(child: subprocess.Popen, signum: int) -> None:
-    # POSIX: forward the signal verbatim. Windows: send CTRL_BREAK_EVENT so the
-    # child's atexit hooks run (it deregisters from pgserver's PID list, lets
-    # streamlit/uvicorn shut down their event loops, etc.). The child must have
-    # been spawned with CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP — see _subprocess_spawn_kwargs.
+    # POSIX: forward the signal verbatim. Windows: TerminateProcess — graceful
+    # CTRL_BREAK_EVENT delivery is unreliable here because some children
+    # (notably the scheduler thread blocked in threading.Event.wait, and
+    # Streamlit/tornado) don't wake on SIGBREAK, leaving the parent's
+    # children-watcher loop hung forever. Force-kill is safe: children no
+    # longer call pgserver.get_server(), so there's no on-disk PID registry
+    # state to clean up — only the parent owns the pgserver handle and
+    # exits via the normal atexit path.
     if sys.platform == "win32":
-        child.send_signal(signal.CTRL_BREAK_EVENT)
+        child.terminate()
     else:
         child.send_signal(signum)