diff --git a/react-packager/src/JSTransformer/index.js b/react-packager/src/JSTransformer/index.js
index 93dd5d01..9bf19139 100644
--- a/react-packager/src/JSTransformer/index.js
+++ b/react-packager/src/JSTransformer/index.js
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ const MAX_CALLS_PER_WORKER = 600;
 // Worker will timeout if one of the callers timeout.
 const DEFAULT_MAX_CALL_TIME = 120000;
 
+// How may times can we tolerate failures from the worker.
+const MAX_RETRIES = 3;
+
 const validateOpts = declareOpts({
   projectRoots: {
     type: 'array',
@@ -63,6 +66,7 @@ class Transformer {
         maxConcurrentCallsPerWorker: 1,
         maxCallsPerWorker: MAX_CALLS_PER_WORKER,
         maxCallTime: opts.transformTimeoutInterval,
+        maxRetries: MAX_RETRIES,
       }, opts.transformModulePath);
 
       this._transform = Promise.denodeify(this._workers);
@@ -118,6 +122,13 @@ class Transformer {
               );
               timeoutErr.type = 'TimeoutError';
               throw timeoutErr;
+            } else if (err.type === 'ProcessTerminatedError') {
+              const uncaughtError = new Error(
+                'Uncaught error in the transformer worker: ' +
+                this._opts.transformModulePath
+              );
+              uncaughtError.type = 'ProcessTerminatedError';
+              throw uncaughtError;
             }
 
             throw formatError(err, filePath);
diff --git a/react-packager/src/SocketInterface/SocketClient.js b/react-packager/src/SocketInterface/SocketClient.js
index 30b599b0..e20e5b89 100644
--- a/react-packager/src/SocketInterface/SocketClient.js
+++ b/react-packager/src/SocketInterface/SocketClient.js
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ const Promise = require('promise');
 const bser = require('bser');
 const debug = require('debug')('ReactPackager:SocketClient');
 const net = require('net');
+const path  = require('path');
+const tmpdir = require('os').tmpdir();
+
+const LOG_PATH = path.join(tmpdir, 'react-packager.log');
 
 class SocketClient {
   static create(sockPath) {
@@ -81,7 +85,9 @@ class SocketClient {
     delete this._resolvers[message.id];
 
     if (message.type === 'error') {
-      resolver.reject(new Error(message.data));
+      resolver.reject(new Error(
+        message.data + '\n' + 'See logs ' + LOG_PATH
+      ));
     } else {
       resolver.resolve(message.data);
     }
diff --git a/react-packager/src/SocketInterface/SocketServer.js b/react-packager/src/SocketInterface/SocketServer.js
index 2e91aaba..d3cb752d 100644
--- a/react-packager/src/SocketInterface/SocketServer.js
+++ b/react-packager/src/SocketInterface/SocketServer.js
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ class SocketServer {
       debug('request error', error);
       this._jobs--;
       this._reply(sock, m.id, 'error', error.stack);
+
+      // Fatal error from JSTransformer transform workers.
+      if (error.type === 'ProcessTerminatedError') {
+        setImmediate(() => process.exit(1));
+      }
     };
 
     switch (m.type) {