diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
index 58af02a0c..e4f8c8ecd 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
     </devs>
 
         <release version="3.0.2-FINAL" date="2007-??-??">
+            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">43116 - [PATCH] - Fix for Escher layer handling of embeded OLE2 documents</action>
             <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">43108 - [PATCH] - Where permissions deny fetching System Properties, use sensible defaults</action>
             <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">43093 - [PATCH] - Fix formula evaluator support for Area3D references to other sheets</action>
             <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">Improvements to HSSFDateUtils.isADateFormat, and have HSSFDateUtil.isCellDateFormatted use this</action>
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index 04ee81639..bceda3644 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 
     <changes>
         <release version="3.0.2-FINAL" date="2007-??-??">
+            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">43116 - [PATCH] - Fix for Escher layer handling of embeded OLE2 documents</action>
             <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">43108 - [PATCH] - Where permissions deny fetching System Properties, use sensible defaults</action>
             <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">43093 - [PATCH] - Fix formula evaluator support for Area3D references to other sheets</action>
             <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">Improvements to HSSFDateUtils.isADateFormat, and have HSSFDateUtil.isCellDateFormatted use this</action>
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/ddf/EscherBlipRecord.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/ddf/EscherBlipRecord.java
index 9ec3be30e..2c31f3f57 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/ddf/EscherBlipRecord.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/ddf/EscherBlipRecord.java
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ public class EscherBlipRecord
      */
     public int getRecordSize()
     {
-        return field_pictureData.length + 4;
+        return field_pictureData.length + HEADER_SIZE;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/data/ole2-embedding.xls b/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/data/ole2-embedding.xls
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..521082b69
Binary files /dev/null and b/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/data/ole2-embedding.xls differ
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/TestOLE2Embeding.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/TestOLE2Embeding.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b0fd77b88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/TestOLE2Embeding.java
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+
+import junit.framework.TestCase;
+
+public class TestOLE2Embeding extends TestCase {
+  public void testEmbeding() throws Exception {
+    String dirname = System.getProperty("HSSF.testdata.path");
+    String filename = dirname + "/ole2-embedding.xls";
+
+    File file = new File(filename);
+    FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
+    HSSFWorkbook workbook;
+
+	// This used to break, until bug #43116 was fixed
+    workbook = new HSSFWorkbook(in);
+
+    in.close();
+
+    // Check we can get at the Escher layer still
+    workbook.getAllPictures();
+  }
+}
+