diff --git a/src/js_parser/visit/mod.rs b/src/js_parser/visit/mod.rs
index 53786e4db37d..67929fd41281 100644
--- a/src/js_parser/visit/mod.rs
+++ b/src/js_parser/visit/mod.rs
@@ -1571,10 +1571,29 @@ impl<'a, const TYPESCRIPT: bool, const SCAN_ONLY: bool> P<'a, TYPESCRIPT, SCAN_O
             }
         }
 
-        if !p.options.features.minify_syntax || !p.options.features.dead_code_elimination {
+        // A case body is one slice of the switch block scope, so a `let` or
+        // `const` declared here can still be used by a later case that has not
+        // been visited yet. `s_switch` mangles every case body once all of them
+        // have been visited and the use counts are final.
+        if kind == StmtsKind::SwitchStmt {
             return Ok(());
         }
 
+        if p.options.features.minify_syntax && p.options.features.dead_code_elimination {
+            p.mangle_stmts(stmts);
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// The minify-syntax pass over one visited statement list: drops fully
+    /// inlined constants, inlines single-use `let`/`const` declarations into the
+    /// statement that follows them, and merges adjacent statements.
+    ///
+    /// Every use of a `let`/`const` declared in `stmts` must have been visited
+    /// before this runs, since it trusts `use_count_estimate`.
+    fn mangle_stmts(&mut self, stmts: &mut ListManaged<'a, Stmt>) {
+        let p = self;
+
         // SAFETY: current_scope is a valid arena ptr for the parse.
         if p.current_scope().parent.is_some() && !p.current_scope().contains_direct_eval {
             // Remove inlined constants now that we know whether any of these statements
@@ -1934,7 +1953,6 @@ impl<'a, const TYPESCRIPT: bool, const SCAN_ONLY: bool> P<'a, TYPESCRIPT, SCAN_O
 
         // stmts.deinit(); — Drop handles freeing the old buffer (BumpVec is arena-backed).
         *stmts = output;
-        Ok(())
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/js_parser/visit/visit_stmt.rs b/src/js_parser/visit/visit_stmt.rs
index 2b3cd18271bc..d821a0f990a3 100644
--- a/src/js_parser/visit/visit_stmt.rs
+++ b/src/js_parser/visit/visit_stmt.rs
@@ -2107,6 +2107,17 @@ impl<'a, const TYPESCRIPT: bool, const SCAN_ONLY: bool> P<'a, TYPESCRIPT, SCAN_O
             }
             p.fn_or_arrow_data_visit.is_inside_switch = old_is_inside_switch;
 
+            // All case bodies share this block scope, so a `let`/`const`
+            // declared in one case can be used by a later case. Only now, with
+            // every case visited, are the use counts final.
+            if p.options.features.minify_syntax && p.options.features.dead_code_elimination {
+                for i in 0..cases.len() {
+                    let mut _stmts = stmts_to_list(p.arena, cases[i].body);
+                    p.mangle_stmts(&mut _stmts);
+                    cases[i].body = list_to_stmts(_stmts);
+                }
+            }
+
             for i in 0..cases.len() {
                 if p.should_lower_using_declarations(cases[i].body.slice()) {
                     lowered_using = true;
diff --git a/src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs b/src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs
index 597bcd6952aa..10640af6251d 100644
--- a/src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs
+++ b/src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ bun_core::declare_scope!(cache, visible);
 /// offsets picked by a header byte) plus a body of tagged records with
 /// u8/u16/u32 ids and implied slots dropped, instead of fixed u32 arrays.
 /// Version 27: ModuleInfo string table holds Latin-1 / UTF-16 bodies, not WTF-8.
-const EXPECTED_VERSION: u32 = 27;
+/// Version 28: The single-use `let`/`const` inliner no longer deletes a declaration
+/// in one switch case clause that a later clause still uses.
+const EXPECTED_VERSION: u32 = 28;
 
 /// Source files smaller than this are not written to / read from the on-disk
 /// transpiler cache. Originally 50 KiB, which excluded almost every file in a
diff --git a/test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts b/test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts
index 11724653c61f..1d2280b2a92c 100644
--- a/test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts
+++ b/test/bundler/bundler_minify.test.ts
@@ -1614,6 +1614,50 @@ describe("bundler", () => {
       expect(code.match(/let keep = /g)).toHaveLength(10);
     },
   });
+
+  // A `let`/`const` declared in one case clause is scoped to the whole switch
+  // block, so a later clause can still read or assign it. The single-use
+  // inliner used to run per clause and deleted `tag`, `s` and `n` after it
+  // had only seen the uses in the declaring clause. `only` has its single use
+  // in the same clause and must still be inlined.
+  itBundled("minify/SwitchCaseDeclUsedInLaterCase", {
+    files: {
+      "/entry.js": /* js */ `
+        function capture(v) { return v; }
+        function fallthrough(k) {
+          switch (k) {
+            case 1: const tag = { id: 1 }; capture(tag);
+            case 2: return typeof tag;
+          }
+        }
+        function defaultClause() {
+          switch (1) {
+            case 1: let s = "s1"; capture(s.length);
+            default: { return s + "!"; }
+          }
+        }
+        function reassigned(k) {
+          switch (k) {
+            case 1: let n = k; capture(n);
+            case 2: n = 5; return n;
+          }
+        }
+        function sameClause(v) {
+          switch (v) {
+            case 1: const only = v; return capture(only + 1);
+          }
+        }
+        console.log(JSON.stringify([fallthrough(1), defaultClause(), reassigned(1), sameClause(1)]));
+      `,
+    },
+    capture: ["v", "tag", "s.length", "n", "v + 1"],
+    minifySyntax: true,
+    minifyIdentifiers: false,
+    target: "bun",
+    run: {
+      stdout: '["object","s1!",5,2]',
+    },
+  });
 });
 
 // The runtime transpiler (`bun run`/`bun test`) implicitly enables
@@ -1647,3 +1691,41 @@ test("runtime transpiler does not collapse single-return arrow bodies", async ()
   expect(stderr).toBe("");
   expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
 });
+
+// The runtime transpiler runs the same single-use inliner. A `const` declared
+// in one case clause and read after a fall-through into the next clause must
+// keep its declaration.
+test("runtime transpiler keeps a switch case declaration that a later case reads", async () => {
+  await using proc = Bun.spawn({
+    cmd: [
+      bunExe(),
+      "-e",
+      /* js */ `
+        function f(k) {
+          switch (k) {
+            case 1: const tag = { id: 1 }; use(tag);
+            case 2: return typeof tag;
+          }
+        }
+        function g() {
+          switch (1) {
+            case 1: let s = "s1"; use(s.length);
+            default: { return s + "!"; }
+          }
+        }
+        function use(v) { return v; }
+        let r;
+        try { r = g(); } catch (e) { r = e.constructor.name; }
+        console.log(JSON.stringify([f(1), r]));
+      `,
+    ],
+    env: bunEnv,
+    stderr: "pipe",
+  });
+
+  const [stdout, stderr, exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);
+
+  expect(stdout).toBe('["object","s1!"]\n');
+  expect(stderr).toBe("");
+  expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
+});