diff --git a/pyramid_socketio/gunicorn/workers.py b/pyramid_socketio/gunicorn/workers.py
index da8dedf..c3c59d3 100644
--- a/pyramid_socketio/gunicorn/workers.py
+++ b/pyramid_socketio/gunicorn/workers.py
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
 from socketio.handler import SocketIOHandler
 
 class GeventSocketIOBaseWorker(GeventPyWSGIWorker):
+    @property
+    def socket(self):
+        if self.sockets:
+            return self.sockets[0]
+
     def run(self):
         self.socket.setblocking(1)
         pool = Pool(self.worker_connections)