diff --git a/lib/internal/modules/esm/hooks.js b/lib/internal/modules/esm/hooks.js
index 82e94d583c8688d..f5833ad61cdb754 100644
--- a/lib/internal/modules/esm/hooks.js
+++ b/lib/internal/modules/esm/hooks.js
@@ -502,8 +502,6 @@ class HooksProxy {
 
   constructor() {
     const { InternalWorker, hooksPort } = require('internal/worker');
-    MessageChannel ??= require('internal/worker/io').MessageChannel;
-
     const lock = new SharedArrayBuffer(SHARED_MEMORY_BYTE_LENGTH);
     this.#lock = new Int32Array(lock);
 
diff --git a/lib/internal/worker.js b/lib/internal/worker.js
index 70b7ffca0465b34..896bbe2ac8c71b4 100644
--- a/lib/internal/worker.js
+++ b/lib/internal/worker.js
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ class Worker extends EventEmitter {
 
     if (!isInternal && hasCustomizations) {
       // - send the second side of the channel to the hooks thread
-      loaderModule.getHooksProxy().makeAsyncRequest(
+      loaderModule.getHooksProxy().makeSyncRequest(
         '#registerWorkerClient', [toWorkerThread], toWorkerThread);
     }
     // Use this to cache the Worker's loopStart value once available.
diff --git a/test/es-module/test-esm-loader-threads.mjs b/test/es-module/test-esm-loader-threads.mjs
index f99493e124a32c8..7310a9ac5b54ac8 100644
--- a/test/es-module/test-esm-loader-threads.mjs
+++ b/test/es-module/test-esm-loader-threads.mjs
@@ -35,4 +35,40 @@ describe('off-thread hooks', { concurrency: true }, () => {
     strictEqual(code, 0);
     strictEqual(signal, null);
   });
+
+  it('propagates the exit code from worker thread import exiting from resolve hook', async () => {
+    const { code, signal, stdout, stderr } = await spawnPromisified(execPath, [
+      '--no-warnings',
+      '--import',
+      `data:text/javascript,${encodeURIComponent(`
+        import { register } from 'node:module';
+        register(${JSON.stringify(fixtures.fileURL('es-module-loaders/hooks-exit-worker.mjs'))});
+      `)}`,
+      fixtures.path('es-module-loaders/worker-log-fail-worker-resolve.mjs'),
+    ]);
+
+    strictEqual(stderr, '');
+    strictEqual(stdout.split('\n').filter((line) => line.startsWith('resolve process-exit-module-resolve')).length, 1);
+    strictEqual(code, 42);
+    strictEqual(signal, null);
+  });
+
+  it('propagates the exit code from worker thread import exiting from load hook', async () => {
+    const { code, signal, stdout, stderr } = await spawnPromisified(execPath, [
+      '--no-warnings',
+      '--import',
+      `data:text/javascript,${encodeURIComponent(`
+        import { register } from 'node:module';
+        register(${JSON.stringify(fixtures.fileURL('es-module-loaders/hooks-exit-worker.mjs'))});
+      `)}`,
+      fixtures.path('es-module-loaders/worker-log-fail-worker-load.mjs'),
+    ]);
+
+    strictEqual(stderr, '');
+    strictEqual(stdout.split('\n').filter((line) => line.startsWith('resolve process-exit-module-load')).length, 1);
+    strictEqual(stdout.split('\n').filter((line) => line.startsWith('load process-exit-on-load:///')).length, 1);
+    strictEqual(code, 43);
+    strictEqual(signal, null);
+  });
+
 });
diff --git a/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/hooks-exit-worker.mjs b/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/hooks-exit-worker.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..d499a835e6456c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/hooks-exit-worker.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import { writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+
+export function resolve(specifier, context, next) {
+	writeFileSync(1, `resolve ${specifier}\n`);
+  if (specifier === 'process-exit-module-resolve') {
+    process.exit(42);
+  }
+	
+  if (specifier === 'process-exit-module-load') {
+    return { __proto__: null, shortCircuit: true, url: 'process-exit-on-load:///' }
+  }
+  return next(specifier, context);
+}
+
+export function load(url, context, next) {
+	writeFileSync(1, `load ${url}\n`);
+  if (url === 'process-exit-on-load:///') {
+    process.exit(43);
+  }
+  return next(url, context);
+}
diff --git a/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/worker-fail-on-load.mjs b/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/worker-fail-on-load.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..46e88664a03c5c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/worker-fail-on-load.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+import 'process-exit-module-load';
diff --git a/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/worker-fail-on-resolve.mjs b/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/worker-fail-on-resolve.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..e8e7adde42585ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/worker-fail-on-resolve.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+import 'process-exit-module-resolve';
diff --git a/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/worker-log-fail-worker-load.mjs b/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/worker-log-fail-worker-load.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..81797da392cb7ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/worker-log-fail-worker-load.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import { Worker } from 'worker_threads';
+import { foo } from './module-named-exports.mjs';
+
+const workerURLFailOnLoad = new URL('./worker-fail-on-load.mjs', import.meta.url);
+console.log(foo);
+
+// Spawn a worker that will fail to import a dependant module
+new Worker(workerURLFailOnLoad);
+
+process.on('exit', (code) => {
+	console.log(`process exit code: ${code}`)
+});
diff --git a/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/worker-log-fail-worker-resolve.mjs b/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/worker-log-fail-worker-resolve.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..b5ff238967f4ef6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/es-module-loaders/worker-log-fail-worker-resolve.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import { Worker } from 'worker_threads';
+import { foo } from './module-named-exports.mjs';
+
+const workerURLFailOnResolve = new URL('./worker-fail-on-resolve.mjs', import.meta.url);
+console.log(foo);
+
+// Spawn a worker that will fail to import a dependant module
+new Worker(workerURLFailOnResolve);
+
+process.on('exit', (code) => {
+	console.log(`process exit code: ${code}`)
+});