diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 5105e6a06..e4426b59d 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ FillArrays = "0.8, 0.9, 0.10, 0.11, 0.12, 0.13, 1"
 ForwardDiff = "0.10"
 GPUArrays = "8.4.2, 9"
 GPUArraysCore = "0.1.1"
-IRTools = "0.4.4"
+IRTools = "0.4.11"
 LogExpFunctions = "0.3.1"
 MacroTools = "0.5"
 NaNMath = "0.3, 1"
diff --git a/src/compiler/reverse.jl b/src/compiler/reverse.jl
index 333323e83..0583b3da6 100644
--- a/src/compiler/reverse.jl
+++ b/src/compiler/reverse.jl
@@ -244,7 +244,6 @@ Variable(a::Alpha) = Variable(a.id)
 sig(b::IRTools.Block) = unique([arg for br in branches(b) for arg in br.args if arg isa Variable])
 sig(pr::Primal) = Dict(b.id => sig(b) for b in blocks(pr.ir))
 
-# TODO unreachables?
 function adjointcfg(pr::Primal)
   ir = empty(pr.ir)
   return!(ir, nothing)
@@ -257,7 +256,9 @@ function adjointcfg(pr::Primal)
         push!(rb, xcall(Base, :(!==), alpha(pr.branches[b.id]), BranchNumber(i)))
       branch!(rb, preds[i].id, unless = cond)
     end
-    if !isempty(branches(b)) && branches(b)[end] == IRTools.unreachable
+    if isempty(preds) || (!isempty(branches(b)) && branches(b)[end] == IRTools.unreachable)
+      # If `b` is unreachable, then no context produced by the primal should end up branching to `rb`
+      push!(rb, xcall(Core, :throw, "unreachable")) # `throw` is necessary for inference not to hit the `unreachable`
       branch!(rb, 0)
     end
   end
diff --git a/test/compiler.jl b/test/compiler.jl
index c9b091f78..4f8776c90 100644
--- a/test/compiler.jl
+++ b/test/compiler.jl
@@ -225,3 +225,23 @@ end
 
 # issue 897
 @test gradient(x -> sum(norm, collect(eachcol(x))), ones(3, 400))[1] ≈ fill(0.5773502691896258, 3, 400)
+
+# issue 1118 & 1380
+function f_1380(x)
+    if rand(Bool)
+        return x
+    else
+        return 2x
+    end
+
+    # unreachable
+    return nothing
+end
+
+@testset "unreachable block" begin
+    y, back = Zygote.pullback(f_1380, 1.)
+    # There should not be a compiler error
+    local g
+    @test_nowarn g = back(1.)
+    @test only(g) ∈ (1., 2.)
+end