diff --git a/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/IOExceptionUtils.java b/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/IOExceptionUtils.java
index ea1a722a15..30b383d628 100644
--- a/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/IOExceptionUtils.java
+++ b/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/IOExceptionUtils.java
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@
 
 /**
  * Utilities for managing I/O resources.
+ * @deprecated
  */
+@Deprecated
 public class IOExceptionUtils {
 
 	/**
diff --git a/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/LittleEndianDataOutputStream.java b/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/LittleEndianDataOutputStream.java
index ab94b32eb6..74bb144ca5 100644
--- a/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/LittleEndianDataOutputStream.java
+++ b/parquet-common/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/bytes/LittleEndianDataOutputStream.java
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@
  */
 package org.apache.parquet.bytes;
 
-import org.apache.parquet.IOExceptionUtils;
-import org.apache.parquet.ParquetRuntimeException;
-
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 
@@ -211,7 +208,11 @@ public final void writeDouble(double v) throws IOException {
   }
 
   public void close() {
-    IOExceptionUtils.closeQuietly(out);
+    try {
+      out.close();
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      // swallow exception
+    }
   }
 
 }