diff --git a/catalog/dags/data_refresh/distributed_reindex.py b/catalog/dags/data_refresh/distributed_reindex.py
index 6666dc71bed..f23fe1b632f 100644
--- a/catalog/dags/data_refresh/distributed_reindex.py
+++ b/catalog/dags/data_refresh/distributed_reindex.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
     OPENLEDGER_API_CONN_ID,
     PRODUCTION,
     REFRESH_POKE_INTERVAL,
+    Environment,
 )
 from common.sql import PGExecuteQueryOperator, single_value
 from data_refresh.constants import INDEXER_LAUNCH_TEMPLATES, INDEXER_WORKER_COUNTS
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@
 class TempConnectionHTTPOperator(HttpOperator):
     """
     Wrapper around the HTTPOperator which allows templating of the conn_id,
-    in order to support using a temporary conn_id passed through XCOM.
+    in order to support using a temporary conn_id passed through XCOMs.
     """
 
     template_fields: Sequence[str] = (
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ class TempConnectionHTTPOperator(HttpOperator):
 class TempConnectionHTTPSensor(HttpSensor):
     """
     Wrapper around the HTTPSensor which allows templating of the conn_id,
-    in order to support using a temporary conn_id passed through XCOM.
+    in order to support using a temporary conn_id passed through XCOMs.
     """
 
     template_fields: Sequence[str] = (
@@ -102,8 +103,8 @@ def response_check_wait_for_completion(response: Response) -> bool:
 def get_worker_params(
     estimated_record_count: int,
     environment: str,
-    target_environment: str,
-    aws_conn_id: str = AWS_ASG_CONN_ID,  # TODO
+    target_environment: Environment,
+    aws_conn_id: str = AWS_ASG_CONN_ID,
 ):
     """Determine the set of start/end indices to be passed to each indexer worker."""
     # Defaults to one indexer worker in local development
@@ -123,10 +124,37 @@ def get_worker_params(
     ]
 
 
+@task
+def get_launch_template_version(
+    environment: str,
+    target_environment: Environment,
+    aws_conn_id: str = AWS_ASG_CONN_ID,
+):
+    """
+    Get the latest version of the launch template. Indexer workers will all be created with this
+    version. Importantly, this allows us to retry an individual indexer worker and ensure that
+    it will run with the same version of the indexer worker as the others, even if code has been
+    deployed to the indexer worker in the meantime.
+    """
+    if environment != PRODUCTION:
+        raise AirflowSkipException("Skipping instance creation in local environment.")
+
+    ec2_hook = EC2Hook(aws_conn_id=aws_conn_id, api_type="client_type")
+    launch_templates = ec2_hook.conn.describe_launch_templates(
+        LaunchTemplateNames=INDEXER_LAUNCH_TEMPLATES.get(target_environment)
+    )
+
+    if len(launch_templates.get("LaunchTemplates")) == 0:
+        raise Exception("Unable to determine launch template version.")
+
+    return launch_templates.get("LaunchTemplates")[0].get("LatestVersionNumber")
+
+
 @task
 def create_worker(
     environment: str,
-    target_environment: str,
+    target_environment: Environment,
+    launch_template_version: int,
     aws_conn_id: str = AWS_ASG_CONN_ID,
 ):
     """
@@ -142,11 +170,7 @@ def create_worker(
         MaxCount=1,
         LaunchTemplate={
             "LaunchTemplateName": INDEXER_LAUNCH_TEMPLATES.get(target_environment),
-            "Version": "$Latest",
-            # TODO we could add a task before all of this to get the version number of
-            # the launch template and then use it in all these tasks, that ensures
-            # that all indexer workers are running the same code even if a deploy
-            # happens in the middle of a data refresh
+            "Version": str(launch_template_version),
         },
         # Name the instance by applying a tag
         TagSpecifications=[
@@ -279,7 +303,7 @@ def reindex(
     start_id: int,
     end_id: int,
     environment: str,
-    target_environment: str,
+    target_environment: Environment,
     aws_conn_id: str = AWS_ASG_CONN_ID,
 ):
     """
@@ -287,10 +311,16 @@ def reindex(
     terminate the indexer worker instance.
     """
 
+    launch_template_version = get_launch_template_version(
+        environment=environment,
+        target_environment=target_environment,
+    )
+
     # Create a new EC2 instance
     instance_id = create_worker(
         environment=environment,
         target_environment=target_environment,
+        launch_template_version=launch_template_version,
         aws_conn_id=aws_conn_id,
     )
 
@@ -356,7 +386,7 @@ def reindex(
 )
 def perform_distributed_reindex(
     environment: str,
-    target_environment: str,  # TODO, update types
+    target_environment: Environment,
     target_index: str,
     data_refresh_config: DataRefreshConfig,
     aws_conn_id: str = AWS_ASG_CONN_ID,