diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 01e53bb46..33d60eac3 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -8237,6 +8237,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "reth-downloaders",
  "reth-errors",
  "reth-execution-types",
+ "reth-fs-util",
  "reth-network-p2p",
  "reth-node-builder",
  "reth-node-core",
diff --git a/crates/cli/commands/src/init_state/mod.rs b/crates/cli/commands/src/init_state/mod.rs
index 2aa2483fd..bdade252a 100644
--- a/crates/cli/commands/src/init_state/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/cli/commands/src/init_state/mod.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use reth_provider::{
     BlockNumReader, DatabaseProviderFactory, StaticFileProviderFactory, StaticFileWriter,
 };
 
-use std::{fs::File, io::BufReader, path::PathBuf, str::FromStr};
+use std::{io::BufReader, path::PathBuf, str::FromStr};
 use tracing::info;
 
 pub mod without_evm;
@@ -115,8 +115,7 @@ impl<C: ChainSpecParser<ChainSpec: EthChainSpec + EthereumHardforks>> InitStateC
 
         info!(target: "reth::cli", "Initiating state dump");
 
-        let file = File::open(self.state)?;
-        let reader = BufReader::new(file);
+        let reader = BufReader::new(reth_fs_util::open(self.state)?);
 
         let hash = init_from_state_dump(reader, &provider_rw, config.stages.etl)?;
 
diff --git a/crates/fs-util/src/lib.rs b/crates/fs-util/src/lib.rs
index d242ecc98..c1aa4900e 100644
--- a/crates/fs-util/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/fs-util/src/lib.rs
@@ -210,6 +210,12 @@ impl FsPathError {
     }
 }
 
+/// Wrapper for [`File::open`].
+pub fn open(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Result<File> {
+    let path = path.as_ref();
+    File::open(path).map_err(|err| FsPathError::open(err, path))
+}
+
 /// Wrapper for `std::fs::read_to_string`
 pub fn read_to_string(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Result<String> {
     let path = path.as_ref();
diff --git a/crates/optimism/cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/optimism/cli/Cargo.toml
index d09007592..b61a4628f 100644
--- a/crates/optimism/cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/optimism/cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ reth-execution-types.workspace = true
 reth-node-core.workspace = true
 reth-optimism-node.workspace = true
 reth-primitives.workspace = true
+reth-fs-util.workspace = true
 
 # so jemalloc metrics can be included
 reth-node-metrics.workspace = true
diff --git a/crates/optimism/cli/src/commands/init_state.rs b/crates/optimism/cli/src/commands/init_state.rs
index 6a36f492c..7bbfc3bb8 100644
--- a/crates/optimism/cli/src/commands/init_state.rs
+++ b/crates/optimism/cli/src/commands/init_state.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use reth_provider::{
     BlockNumReader, ChainSpecProvider, DatabaseProviderFactory, StaticFileProviderFactory,
     StaticFileWriter,
 };
-use std::{fs::File, io::BufReader};
+use std::io::BufReader;
 use tracing::info;
 
 /// Initializes the database with the genesis block.
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ impl<C: ChainSpecParser<ChainSpec = OpChainSpec>> InitStateCommandOp<C> {
 
         info!(target: "reth::cli", "Initiating state dump");
 
-        let reader = BufReader::new(File::open(self.init_state.state)?);
+        let reader = BufReader::new(reth_fs_util::open(self.init_state.state)?);
         let hash = init_from_state_dump(reader, &provider_rw, config.stages.etl)?;
 
         provider_rw.commit()?;