diff --git a/app/javascript/src/styles/specific/error.scss b/app/javascript/src/styles/specific/error.scss
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c629edbdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/javascript/src/styles/specific/error.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+ul.backtrace {
+  font-family: monospace;
+  font-size: 1.2em;
+  list-style-type: none;
+  background: #EEE;
+  padding: 1em;
+  margin-bottom: 1em;
+}
diff --git a/app/views/static/_backtrace.html.erb b/app/views/static/_backtrace.html.erb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c92a33081
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/static/_backtrace.html.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<%# backtrace %>
+
+<ul class="backtrace">
+  <% Rails.backtrace_cleaner.clean(backtrace).each do |b| %>
+    <li class="backtrace-line"><%= b %></li>
+  <% end %>
+</ul>
diff --git a/app/views/static/error.html.erb b/app/views/static/error.html.erb
index ae6df8f9f..648971206 100644
--- a/app/views/static/error.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/static/error.html.erb
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 <% if CurrentUser.user.try(:is_builder?) && @exception.present? %>
-  <h1><%= @exception.class.to_s %> exception raised</h1>
-  <ul style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 1.2em; list-style-type: none;">
-    <li><%= @exception.message.dup.force_encoding("utf-8") %></li>
-    <%- Rails.backtrace_cleaner.clean(@exception.backtrace).each do |b| -%>
-      <li style="list-style-type: none;"><%= b %></li>
-    <%- end -%>
-  </ul>
+    <h1><%= @exception.class.to_s %> exception raised</h1>
+
+    <p><%= @exception.message.dup.force_encoding("utf-8") %></p>
+    <%= render "static/backtrace", backtrace: @exception.backtrace %>
 <% elsif @error_message %>
   <p><%= @error_message %></p>
 <% else %>
diff --git a/app/views/static/error.json.erb b/app/views/static/error.json.erb
index e2fa831d9..ddd0c6852 100644
--- a/app/views/static/error.json.erb
+++ b/app/views/static/error.json.erb
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
   {
     "success": false,
     "message": <%= raw @exception.to_s.encode("utf-8", {:invalid => :replace, :undef => :replace, :replace => "?"}).to_json %>,
-    "backtrace": <%= raw @exception.backtrace.to_json %>
+    "backtrace": <%= raw Rails.backtrace_cleaner.clean(@exception.backtrace).to_json %>
   }
 <% end %>
diff --git a/app/views/uploads/show.html.erb b/app/views/uploads/show.html.erb
index 414ed9a40..db7101dea 100644
--- a/app/views/uploads/show.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/uploads/show.html.erb
@@ -30,11 +30,7 @@
     <% else %>
       <p>An error occurred: <%= render_status(@upload) %></p>
       <% if CurrentUser.user.is_builder? %>
-        <ul>
-          <% @upload.backtrace.to_s.split(/\n/).each do |line| %>
-            <li><%= line %></li>
-          <% end %>
-        </ul>
+        <%= render "static/backtrace", backtrace: @upload.backtrace.to_s.split(/\n/) %>
       <% end %>
     <% end %>