diff --git a/src/main.F90 b/src/main.F90
index 41a7481da7..e0182902a6 100644
--- a/src/main.F90
+++ b/src/main.F90
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ program main
     ! For tallies-only mode, we just skip straight to finalize_run to write out
     ! the tally results
   case (MODE_PARTICLE)
-    call run_particle_restart()
+    if(master) call run_particle_restart()
   end select
 
   ! finalize run