diff --git a/crunch-core/src/it/java/org/apache/crunch/RecordDropIT.java b/crunch-core/src/it/java/org/apache/crunch/RecordDropIT.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c4c57f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crunch-core/src/it/java/org/apache/crunch/RecordDropIT.java
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ */
+package org.apache.crunch;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
+import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
+import org.apache.crunch.impl.mr.MRPipeline;
+import org.apache.crunch.io.From;
+import org.apache.crunch.test.TemporaryPath;
+import org.apache.crunch.test.TemporaryPaths;
+import org.apache.crunch.types.writable.Writables;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.TextInputFormat;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+public class RecordDropIT {
+  @Rule
+  public TemporaryPath tmpDir = TemporaryPaths.create();
+
+  @Test
+  public void testMultiReadCount() throws Exception {
+    int numReads = 10;
+    MRPipeline p = new MRPipeline(RecordDropIT.class, tmpDir.getDefaultConfiguration());
+    Path shakes = tmpDir.copyResourcePath("shakes.txt");
+    TableSource<LongWritable, Text> src = From.formattedFile(shakes,
+        TextInputFormat.class, LongWritable.class, Text.class);
+    PTable<LongWritable, Text> in = p.read(src);
+    List<Iterable<Integer>> values = Lists.newArrayList();
+    for (int i = 0; i < numReads; i++) {
+      PCollection<Integer> cnt = in.parallelDo(new LineCountFn<Pair<LongWritable, Text>>(), Writables.ints());
+      values.add(cnt.materialize());
+    }
+    int index = 0;
+    for (Iterable<Integer> iter : values) {
+      assertEquals("Checking index = " + index, 3667, Iterables.getFirst(iter, 0).intValue());
+      index++;
+    }
+    p.done();
+  }
+
+  public static class LineCountFn<T> extends DoFn<T, Integer> {
+
+    private int count = 0;
+
+    @Override
+    public void process(T input, Emitter<Integer> emitter) {
+      count++;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void cleanup(Emitter<Integer> emitter) {
+      emitter.emit(count);
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/crunch-core/src/main/java/org/apache/crunch/impl/dist/collect/BaseInputTable.java b/crunch-core/src/main/java/org/apache/crunch/impl/dist/collect/BaseInputTable.java
index 18a671b..6315eb4 100644
--- a/crunch-core/src/main/java/org/apache/crunch/impl/dist/collect/BaseInputTable.java
+++ b/crunch-core/src/main/java/org/apache/crunch/impl/dist/collect/BaseInputTable.java
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@
 
   @Override
   public boolean equals(Object other) {
+    if (other == null || !(other instanceof BaseInputTable)) {
+      return false;
+    }
     return asCollection.equals(other);
   }
 }